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little-alchemy-setup.exe

Pokki

The application little-alchemy-setup.exe by Pokki has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 5 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer. The installer uses the OpenCandy monitzation platform which will donwload and install offers in the setup for potentially unwanted software including ad/search-supported toolbars. The file has been seen being downloaded from downloadlittlealchemy.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Pokki  (signed and verified)

MD5:
bd5906c92a95841a24b296607bd7f2c2

SHA-1:
d1c8c2507028ef9127b78d5aad476c0260771f2d

SHA-256:
395ed8728f73f7b9b83eb9b032953dab72087439e274d1933ae76d8f0174bb94

Scanner detections:
5 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Packages the OpenCandy software bundler that offers to install additional software and may include web browser add-ons and toolbars which display advertising (based on publisher settings and geo context).

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 8:20:41 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Dr.Web
Adware.OpenCandy.3
9.0.1.0104

ESET NOD32
Win32/OpenCandy
8.9616

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OpenCandy
v2014.04.14.03

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Optional.Installer.U
14.4.14.3

Rising Antivirus
PE:PUF.OpenCandy!1.9DE5
23.00.65.14412

File size:
493.1 KB (504,904 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\little-alchemy-setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Pokki

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
2/27/2012 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
4/25/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Pokki, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Pokki, L=San Diego, 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:
7F0C02A0B2F2B0727327296C8736183B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/24/2012 2:19:54 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:mCl7VGXsjlmtOCnHuaGbh8H2WVotd1c0hSIa+YTghulDvGN5:m67gXmwtBnHdbHHohc/kagoJ+7

Entry address:
0x3883

Entry point:
81, EC, D4, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 57, 6A, 20, 33, ED, 5E, 89, 6C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 68, 92, 40, 00, 89, 6C, 24, 14, FF, 15, 30, 80, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 80, 40, 00, 55, FF, 15, C0, 82, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, B8, 2E, 47, 00, E8, 36, 2A, 00, 00, 55, 68, B4, 02, 00, 00, A3, D0, 2D, 47, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 50, 55, 68, 64, 92, 40, 00, FF, 15, 84, 81, 40, 00, 68, 4C, 92, 40, 00, 68, C0, AD, 46, 00, E8, 18, 27, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 80, 40, 00, 50, BF, A0, 30, 4C, 00, 57, E8, 06, 27, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9417

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
27.5 KB (28,160 bytes)

The file little-alchemy-setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

http://downloadlittlealchemy.com/Content/.../littlealchemysetup.exe

http://d1w62p0lnv89fi.cloudfront.net/little-alchemy-setup.exe

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