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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:
1ba46ec6a8966ec0302c89f9cb126f3b

SHA-1:
f08c9716ecca4eb7c9860cc8ad56569a02a727e0

SHA-256:
c3823f18340190391a42ec9b210578a15dd8f727f24aba4e3b0626f42b37876b

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
5/17/2024 8:30:47 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.GamingCa (M)
16.6.9.10

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\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\gamingcandygames.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
GamingCandy

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
4/8/2016 9:13:47 AM

Valid to:
5/25/2017 4:13:29 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 4:24:57 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:gh8CZeqNRO7bMjb8WgrgEZ2RyfpX/XBsqMQ:ghvQ7bERgH4ypXBsqf

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:
6.3632

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=OTE2MjQxMDQ3N9uhRSoNtLPDz9/eONH998uo0nulwcDBsg/.../XPV8MItW4Gzepy WkALn0NaLHOHm51QEIHodvuMSsMfNacXv54cfYewQhrbmbjDoOdInE2MlNPeGwnMUrYZBTRGQ==

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