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halo.exe

Play Turtle, LLC

The application halo.exe by Play Turtle 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 Inno Setup installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from installerlaunch-pt1.com.
Publisher:
Play Turtle, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
97890a5ea9ba74a92d8db3a5a3c07267

SHA-1:
4abbc29a3d35bea5bcd5ee482d11d191d11137b3

SHA-256:
e985f45e12d291e28270049b15ef4c7464f1965a300edfd3971b7947e4e66bfd

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:
4/25/2024 11:46:38 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.EpicPlay.PlayTurtle.Installer (M)
16.1.29.7

File size:
764.8 KB (783,128 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Play Turtle, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/9/2012 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/6/2015 3:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Play Turtle, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Play Turtle, LLC", L=Plantation, 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:
5B14229E477C93B843C75DB94F3318D0

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:oyMJfsGzqYNWVhbPEHBe7Wz70IJsrfBaOV84XZnj9iqiCuK3eaOtsAJIPSJ1jRNn:oyMJfsGq3bMHmWv0+gaunUjYEJAQLju6

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:
7.8616

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

Code size:
36 KB (36,864 bytes)

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

http://installerlaunch-pt1.com/dl.php?dl=pp/pp_17947_v2.exe&dn=halo.exe&sid=404544-us&pid=1277&browser=ch&ptrk=aot3i2rmaq9avjiqlonoud2lr7&SCHEME_EXT=Optimized&TYP_URL=http://.../ty.php

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