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froggerplugin.exe

Game Play Labs

This is the installer application for a 50onRed advertising supported software package (displays ads in the browser and may hijack the home and search pages of the web browser). The application froggerplugin.exe by Game Play Labs has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from dl.gameplaylabs.com.
Publisher:
Game Play Labs  (signed and verified)

MD5:
36abce5928b38674c5a5e4db20df9e60

SHA-1:
85342077a877f8fcfe55591c356e2d9dab1d2c85

SHA-256:
e8d85edaf5c0fa7ea0bbef635791287683ef3defe45620263aa1f5d1f42ff6d8

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/23/2024 10:16:31 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.50OnRed (M)
16.12.20.0

File size:
856.6 KB (877,176 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Game Play Labs

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
11/3/2010 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
11/4/2011 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Game Play Labs, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Game Play Labs, L=Philadelphia, S=Pennsylvania, 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:
6ACCE23BF8176B4E2BFCFFAB8FB3BB19

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/15/2010 2:27:50 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0xA7B1

Entry point:
E8, E3, FE, FF, FF, 33, C0, 50, 50, 50, 50, E8, BE, 2B, 00, 00, C3, 56, 57, 8B, 7C, 24, 0C, 8B, F1, 8B, CF, 89, 3E, E8, D0, A7, FF, FF, 89, 46, 08, 89, 56, 0C, 8B, 87, 1C, 0C, 00, 00, 89, 46, 10, 5F, 8B, C6, 5E, C2, 04, 00, 8B, C1, 8B, 08, 8B, 50, 10, 3B, 91, 1C, 0C, 00, 00, 75, 0D, 6A, 00, FF, 70, 0C, FF, 70, 08, E8, AF, AC, FF, FF, C3, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 1C, 56, 33, F6, 56, 56, 56, 56, 8D, 45, E4, 50, FF, 15, 40, 22, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 21, 56, 56, 56, 8D, 45, E4, 50, FF, 15, 44, 22, 41, 00, 8D, 45, E4...
 
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Entropy:
7.7418  (probably packed)

Code size:
66 KB (67,584 bytes)

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

http://dl.gameplaylabs.com/inst/ns3/frogger-exe/4caa425a93dbdb1f62401f4f1/OTE4NSZzdWJpZD0wM183MDIwOTA1X2YxYWUwN2UwLTc2NjMtNGFiMS1iZjY5LTM1OTVlMzRiNjBjMi0xNTM5NjY=/.../FroggerPlugin.exe

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