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cheatengine64.exe

Cheat Engine 6.4

Cheat Engine

The application cheatengine64.exe, “Cheat Engine 6.4 Setup ” by Cheat Engine has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 2 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. The installer uses the OpenCandy monitzation platform which will donwload and install offers in the setup for potentially unwanted software including ad/search-supported toolbars. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.heise.de and multiple other hosts.

File name:

cheatengine64.exe

Publisher:

Cheat Engine (signed by Cheat Engine)

Product:

Cheat Engine 6.4

Description:

Cheat Engine 6.4 Setup

Version:

6.4.0.0

MD5:

687162ef382f0eefc878a0522a05a1fd

SHA-1:

7f11d4bf32645bceb1af042265ec5f1a5c6b98f9

SHA-256:

0611d07aaabe7689d64728502ee2012f112d836c1e6d2d6ea0399c84b9b68c1a

Scanner detections:

2 / 68

Status:

Potentially unwanted

Explanation:

Packages the OpenCandy software bundler that offers to install additional software and may include web browser add-ons and toolbars which display advertising (based on publisher settings and geo context).

Analysis date:

4/24/2024 3:48:06 AM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

ESET NOD32

Win32/OpenCandy (variant)

8.9972

Reason Heuristics

PUP.CheatEngine.Bundler.Installer.Meta (L)

16.5.22.15

File size:

8.6 MB (9,052,432 bytes)

Product version:

6.4.0.0

Cheat Engine

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:

Inno Setup

Language:

Language Neutral

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\downloads\installers\cheatengine64.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Cheat Engine

Authority:

GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:

5/14/2014 3:14:16 PM

Valid to:

8/22/2015 2:08:43 PM

Subject:

E=dark_byte@hotmail.com, CN=Cheat Engine, O=Cheat Engine, L=Eindhoven, C=NL

Issuer:

CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:

1121773089910CF0E7EA1D8A1E403D5344A8

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

6/20/1992 1:22:17 AM

OS version:

1.0

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):

196608:V4jClcw73GnIf8DH+zwlPd+k6NBn795UsOGGCAO01vU6g7:V6McwLGnI0lPd257UsOG61vY

Entry address:

0x9C40

Entry point:

55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, E8, CD, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, E8, CD... 
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Entropy:

7.9996

Packer / compiler:

Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:

37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file cheatengine64.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 11 URLs.

https://download.heise.de/software/c6d69c8cf0baecf557347915fa1fc467/583a37dd/.../cheatengine64.exe

https://secure.giga-downloads.de/dl/.../

https://files.giga-downloads.de/.../CheatEngine.exe

http://server2.downloadlod.com/.../cheatengine.exe

https://secure.giga-downloads.de/dl/.../

http://server1.downloadlod.com/.../cheatengine.exe

https://secure.giga-downloads.de/dl/.../

http://mirror3.cheatengine.org/download/.../CheatEngine64.exe

http://mirror1.cheatengine.org/download/.../CheatEngine64.exe

http://dl.cdn.chip.de/downloads/.../CheatEngine64.exe

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