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GamingCandy Games

GamingCandy

The application gamingcandygames.exe by GamingCandy has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The file has been seen being downloaded from pofj.gamingcandy.com.
Publisher:
GamingCandy  (signed and verified)

Product:
GamingCandy Games

Description:
GamingCandy GUI

Version:
3.0.3936

MD5:
80673801e52321a5eaeb2952ebb3d0e5

SHA-1:
d6f70afcdab8cca4ed706d60e0bbac0d52ab3618

SHA-256:
4312012d0fca5e5ae4db3ad498ce67b275b6d46dd9cfd88f783e62515871db86

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
5/17/2024 8:32:45 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.GamingCa (M)
16.6.1.8

File size:
502.5 KB (514,552 bytes)

Product version:
3.0.3936

Copyright:
Copyright (C) GamingCandy 2014

Original file name:
GUI

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\gamingcandygames.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
GamingCandy

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
4/8/2016 8:13:47 AM

Valid to:
5/25/2017 3:13:29 PM

Subject:
CN=GamingCandy, O=GamingCandy, L=Sacramento, S=CA, C=US

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
1121E4A8192DEFD930AA89148F80C4179322

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/29/2015 3:24:57 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:gh8CZeqNRO7bMjb8WgrgEZ2RyJpX/XBsqMY:ghvQ7bERgH4yfXBsq3

Entry address:
0x30826

Entry point:
E8, 67, 92, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, F1, 8B, 4D, 08, C6, 46, 0C, 00, 85, C9, 75, 66, E8, B1, 86, 00, 00, 8B, D0, 89, 56, 08, 8B, 4A, 6C, 89, 0E, 8B, 4A, 68, 89, 4E, 04, 8B, 0E, 3B, 0D, F4, 97, 46, 00, 74, 11, A1, BC, 98, 46, 00, 85, 42, 70, 75, 07, E8, 2A, 96, 00, 00, 89, 06, 8B, 46, 04, 3B, 05, 68, 91, 46, 00, 74, 15, 8B, 4E, 08, A1, BC, 98, 46, 00, 85, 41, 70, 75, 08, E8, 8D, 99, 00, 00, 89, 46, 04, 8B, 4E, 08, 8B, 41, 70, A8, 02, 75, 16, 83, C8, 02, 89, 41, 70, C6, 46, 0C, 01, EB...
 
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Entropy:
6.3630

Code size:
317.5 KB (325,120 bytes)

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

http://pofj.gamingcandy.com/prm/inst?i=YTIzMDk4Mjk3MjnboUUqDbSzw8/f3jjR/ffLqNJ7pcHAwbLuvavoXh2LcHg6g/.../O4OvEy98zqhFMjcc9xRZPVB8P4mY7kl1t2B8bP4NH2s3P T8=

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