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Sweet Gamer LLC

The application console.exe by Sweet Gamer has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 5 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. 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 installerlaunch-gn2.com.
Publisher:
Sweet Gamer LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
067510c50169624404c2e7ec8b2d3766

SHA-1:
cac32f97ca9baa350ed52e4fc62584f4cd9b5834

SHA-256:
70492997fbc84941a5efa47e0822d8452414d1f3fa3c89dd5e7259d9930b0450

Scanner detections:
5 / 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:
4/19/2024 9:27:15 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:InstallCore-GD [PUP]
160708-3

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.CH potentially unwanted application
8.0.319.0

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.R.gen
4.6.5.141

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore.SweetGam (M)
16.7.27.4

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4835495
50674

File size:
703 KB (719,864 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Sweet Gamer LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/10/2012 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/6/2015 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Sweet Gamer LLC, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Sweet Gamer LLC, L=Sunrise, S=Florida, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
0C82FF046C1E5F30CAD52704CD2952EE

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 3:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:vyMJfsGX2R2Sey889jkMqp8MtgBICnaOKQlQW0oKPrkBLxHgqQ99DS1YzSEux8Ic:vyMJfs+2YSeyzcntgBICaOvKGKIZxHgJ

Entry address:
0x98CC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, CC, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, FA, 97, FF, FF, E8, 01, AA, FF, FF, E8, 2C, CC, FF, FF, E8, 73, CC, FF, FF, E8, 0A, F3, FF, FF, E8, 71, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 76, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 2C, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, B0, 40, 00, E8, 9B, FE, FF, FF, E8, 26, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, E0, D0, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, D8, BD, 40, 00, E8, AB, 98, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, D8, BD, 40, 00, B2, 01, B8...
 
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Entropy:
7.8107

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
36 KB (36,864 bytes)

The file console.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installerlaunch-gn2.com/index.php?dl=download.installerlaunch-gn2.com/gn/gn_12436_v1.exe&dn=console.exe&sid=1579-CONS2us&pid=1562&browser=ch&ptrk=n6e43o1nsjb740o48h4ch05av3&DOP=2&typ=http://.../ty.php

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