home

midnight-racing-downloader.exe

My Program

Gamehitzone Inc.

The application midnight-racing-downloader.exe, “My Program Setup ” by Gamehitzone has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 12 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Inno Setup installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.gamehitzone.com.
Publisher:
Gamehitzone Inc.  (signed and verified)

Product:
My Program

Description:
My Program Setup

MD5:
fe57eb5048235332a4e2987c92650973

SHA-1:
9cd8cb96afdbc7d8931866833d034f9b4990c6c6

SHA-256:
5638ca0e305473ad9886bc83e5e760ca26de42e95e6c131693cecb56a44170ef

Scanner detections:
12 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Analysis date:
4/24/2024 7:43:25 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.InstallCore
2014.08.18

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/InstallCore.Gen9
7.11.167.204

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3396

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.PZ (variant)
8.10272

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of fender-bender-downloader.exe (PUP)
2014.9.10.20

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.183.13054

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.InstallCore
v2014.07.31.05

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Virus.Adware.f22
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.Gamehitzone.AA
14.7.31.17

Sophos
Install Core Click run software
4.98

SUPERAntiSpyware
PUP.InstallCore/Variant
10368

Trend Micro House Call
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0725
7.2.253

File size:
753.2 KB (771,240 bytes)

Product version:
1.5

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Inno Setup

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\midnight-racing-downloader.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Gamehitzone Inc.

Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
12/30/2013 6:07:03 PM

Valid to:
12/31/2014 6:07:03 PM

Subject:
E=abuse@gamehitzone.com, CN=Gamehitzone Inc., O=Gamehitzone Inc., L=Belize City, S=Belize, C=BZ

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

Serial number:
112137083CF0DD5622254F323C0D8C7424DA

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 1:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:4ivpdHHoXhYaDx91iUtWEb/F0n/RpWNmiXiquFt3VeWm8nUujV2Snzeo0wwlCqcH:4ivnHHoXhYS1GEJ0n/RpWNLSqlTUx2EX

Entry address:
0x9C40

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, C4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, 86, 94, FF, FF, E8, 8D, A6, FF, FF, E8, 1C, A9, FF, FF, E8, 53, C9, FF, FF, E8, 9A, C9, FF, FF, E8, C9, F2, FF, FF, E8, 30, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, FC, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, C5, A2, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, C0, 40, 00, E8, 96, FE, FF, FF, E8, C9, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, 83, CF, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, 24, CE, 40, 00, E8, 32, 95, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, 24, CE...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.8817

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

Code size:
37 KB (37,888 bytes)

The file midnight-racing-downloader.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://www.gamehitzone.com/.../midnight-racing-downloader2.exe

Remove midnight-racing-downloader.exe - Powered by Reason Core Security
herdProtect is a second line of defense malware removal platform powered by 68 anti-malware engines in the cloud. Since no single anti-malware program is perfect 100% of the time, herdProtect utilizes a 'herd' of multiple engines to guarantee the widest coverage and the earliest possible detection.