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minecraft-setup.exe

Power Play Media

The application minecraft-setup.exe by Power Play Media has been detected as adware by 21 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Tomorrow Software Installer installer. This program installs potentially unwanted software on your PC at the same time as the software you are trying to install, without adequate consent. With this installer, users are expecting to download Minecraft but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
Power Play Media  (signed and verified)

Product:
Power Play Media

Version:
6.5.8.5004

MD5:
ec0a50439c639547cedf0bee4724b305

SHA-1:
2b974306a62a698e5cec9a66bf72649b29a7659e

SHA-256:
611506222542c68a9aebac025ce72c41040a95614dd39c00cac62bbb3d2d0350

Scanner detections:
21 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundles additional software, mostly toolbars and other potentially unwanted applications using the Vittalia monitization installer.

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
5/21/2024 3:42:00 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DownloadAdmin.4
402

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.Bagsu
2015.12.03

avast!
Win32:Trojan-gen
2014.9-151229

AVG
Generic36
2016.0.2880

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DownloadAdmin.4
1.0.20.1815

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.7383

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.DownloadAdmin.RP
23690

Dr.Web
Trojan.Vittalia.1361
9.0.1.0363

ESET NOD32
Win32/DownloadAdmin.P potentially unwanted (variant)
9.12659

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/DownloadAdmin
12/29/2015

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2015-29-12_3

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DownloadAdmin
15.12.25

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.Win32.Dowadmin
t3scan.1.9.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.212.18027

McAfee
Artemis!14DC059F4AAC
5600.6536

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DownloadAdmin.4
16.0.0.1089

Panda Antivirus
Generic Suspicious
15.12.29.10

Reason Heuristics
PUP.TomorrowSoftware.PowerPlayMedia.Bundler (M)
15.12.29.22

Rising Antivirus
PE:Adware.DownloadAdmin!1.A243 [F]
23.00.65.151227

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
45570

File size:
870.6 KB (891,496 bytes)

Product version:
6.5.8.5004

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2015

Original file name:
setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Tomorrow Software Installer

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Power Play Media

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
11/20/2015 2:50:38 PM

Valid to:
10/13/2016 4:17:38 PM

Subject:
CN=Power Play Media, O=Power Play Media, L=San Francisco, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
6022A4F3CF348BA8

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/5/2014 4:45:43 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:0YNuZNe5vj3osB7frRkwrkpYrPU02OJTRMCPKx+FVBhC+Uu+XNUeqTrsIBVy:9NXl7f91kpsJTOmK0FNVJQNxqUoVy

Entry address:
0x2795

Entry point:
E8, 76, B1, 00, 00, E9, 74, AA, 00, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 08, 33, C0, EB, 0F, 85, C0, 75, 10, 8B, 0E, 85, C9, 74, 02, FF, D1, 83, C6, 04, 3B, 75, 0C, 72, EC, 5E, 5D, C3, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, FF, 25, 90, 48, 41, 00, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 53, 55, 56, 8B, 74, 24, 10, 57, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, 56, E8, 4E, 47, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, FF, 15, 88, F0, 40, 00, 8B, C8, C1, E9, 08, 33, FF, 0F, B6, D8, 0F, B6, E9, 3D, 00, 00, 00, 80, 73, 05, C1, E8, 10, 8B, F8, 53...
 
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Entropy:
7.9687  (probably packed)

Code size:
52.5 KB (53,760 bytes)

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