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game of war-setup.exe

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The application game of war-setup.exe by DownloadShield has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.freegamer.info and multiple other hosts. While running, it connects to the Internet address static.rcn.com on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
DownloadShield  (signed and verified)

MD5:
7352afdb1ffbf7ab28749d84f0e097d6

SHA-1:
d5101501d78904a6600ebed4a5bc29d79b1b68b1

SHA-256:
d0927de9fe215c20f78598c68672e913d97e15542783d0fb39ea8e4b1906ac4e

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:
5/10/2024 9:08:18 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Download.Installer (M)
16.6.15.5

File size:
267.6 KB (274,032 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\new folder\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\game of war-setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
DownloadShield

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/21/2015 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
3/21/2019 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=DownloadShield, O=DownloadShield, L=San Jose, S=California, 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:
78070F8D972292519C0C15749BCB3808

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/3/2015 9:43:56 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:O0hNLv8OETMsFiv6BtgZHbGYXwj5484rLMa:Hb8FTMssG2ZyYXU4fR

Entry address:
0x31FD

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 33, DB, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 1C, C7, 44, 24, 14, F0, 73, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 18, 20, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 66, 83, F8, 06, 74, 11, 53, E8, F3, 26, 00, 00, 3B, C3, 74, 07, 68, 00, 0C, 00, 00, FF, D0, 68, E8, 73, 40, 00, E8, 74, 26, 00, 00, 68, E0, 73, 40, 00, E8, 6A, 26, 00, 00, 68, D4, 73, 40, 00, E8, 60, 26, 00, 00, 6A, 0D, E8, C3, 26, 00, 00, 6A, 0B, E8, BC, 26, 00, 00, A3, 00, 3C, 42, 00, FF, 15, 34, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF...
 
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Entropy:
7.1803

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

The file game of war-setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://www.freegamer.info/.../download

http://www.freegamer.info/.../Game Of War-setup.exe

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to static.rcn.com  (207.172.193.34:80)

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to ps533545.dreamhost.com  (64.111.117.81:443)

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