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Cheat Engine 6.4

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The application cheatengine64.exe, “Cheat Engine 6.4 Setup ” 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, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from mirror2.cheatengine.org.
Publisher:
Cheat Engine

Product:
Cheat Engine 6.4

Description:
Cheat Engine 6.4 Setup

Version:
6.4.0.5

MD5:
c7b9f5f8c3421c0587145714d8a6c66d

SHA-1:
e3ae2bcd7f468a9197962cffd9638e88338dc112

SHA-256:
f261f02bfc8733940779764528dabdb212c1eb2702d94863164d7ec66ba5c78f

Scanner detections:
2 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 4:22:40 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Detection.Undefined
7.0.302.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.InstallCore.RE11 (M)
16.12.9.22

File size:
1.2 MB (1,256,277 bytes)

Product version:
6.4.0.5

Copyright:
Cheat Engine

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\cheatengine64.exe

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 5:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:2naLfGtYWpQvZnheq2yULLKQL5FFN1R7mIrzkdzS3lj8juAdLo86VMa288/MO:2aitWvBcq2y+2QL5HND7mgzkMl4bk86k

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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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 URL.

http://mirror2.cheatengine.org/download/.../CheatEngine64.exe

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