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minecraft.exe

The application minecraft.exe has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 29 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) installer, however the file is not signed with an authenticode signature from a trusted source. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.freesoftwaren.com.
MD5:
625ab4a965007674a0f4a663087f6f03

SHA-1:
7c7fd8ce2034b7fcee14bad90d6b3501460b1ee3

SHA-256:
18cec08238579cb10969fd934ff481e600af8d10da6f90978cc668d1afeecd99

Scanner detections:
29 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Explanation:
Bundles additional adware offers during download and installation using the OutBrowse installer.

Analysis date:
4/27/2024 9:15:39 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.A
259

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.OutBrowse
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Downloader.Gen
7.11.183.120

avast!
NSIS:OutBrowse-I [PUP]
2014.9-160521

AVG
Downloader
2017.0.2737

Baidu Antivirus
HackTool.Win32.OutBrowse
4.0.3.16521

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.A
1.0.20.710

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.OutBrowse-4
0.98/21411

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.OutBrowse.~A
20005

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.1770
9.0.1.0142

ESET NOD32
Win32/OutBrowse.BA (variant)
10.10680

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/NSIS_OutBrowse
5/21/2016

F-Prot
W32/Outbrowse.A
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse
11.2016-21-05_7

G Data
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse
16.5.24

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.185.13930

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.NSIS.OutBrowse
14.0.0.179

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.OutBrowse
v2016.05.21.05

McAfee
Artemis!625AB4A96500
5600.6393

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.Outbrowse.A
17.0.0.426

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.OutBrowse.cvyscp
0.28.6.62995

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Virus.Downloader.ad6
1.0.0.1015

Quick Heal
TrojanDownloader.NSIS.OutBrowse.B
5.16.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.OutBrowse (M)
16.5.21.5

Sophos
OutBrowse
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.R0CBC0OBK14
7.2.142

Trend Micro
TROJ_GEN.R0CBC0OBK14
10.465.21

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downloader.OutBrowse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
OutBrowse
34558

File size:
615.9 KB (630,730 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/5/2009 5:50:52 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:RnFyhCfsMntd1zdwVWyK1EzotWlj+kzVX0xp+lHTNo5uLMxHeXAkepYsq45:RFyhCfsMtpwof1EzotWln3M6VXopa45

Entry address:
0x30FA

Entry point:
81, EC, 80, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 60, 91, 40, 00, 33, F6, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 30, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 7C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 18, EC, 42, 00, E8, F1, 2B, 00, 00, A3, 64, EB, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 34, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, 98, 8F, 42, 00, FF, 15, 58, 71, 40, 00, 68, 54, 91, 40, 00, 68, 60, E3, 42, 00, E8, A4, 28, 00, 00, FF, 15, AC, 70, 40, 00, BF, 00, 40, 43, 00, 50, 57, E8, 92, 28, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9788

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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

http://www.freesoftwaren.com/.../download.php?id=52fd0715d52be&i=us2

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