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The application minecraft.exe, “CHIP Secured Installer” has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The file has been seen being downloaded from global-shared-files-lw.softonic.com.
Description:
CHIP Secured Installer

Version:
2.0.6.0

MD5:
5fc7290a54254503607a6be51a45d606

SHA-1:
ac0b81ab6501e7df381590f2838bc8fd3b2993cc

SHA-256:
fc0cf7896c32791501d5864b7b639d0ce36fd3430088c00b0a15a9960b3ce434

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 7:39:11 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Chip (L)
16.10.4.12

File size:
1.4 MB (1,474,568 bytes)

Product version:
2.0.6.0

Copyright:
Copyright © 2016 Chip Digital GmbH

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
German (Germany)

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

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/12/2013 1:31:36 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.22

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:R3M40bXrbQjnVCEwtMvZaLZwpYKkbH24vp:R3M40b7kkDtMvZaypY1/B

Entry address:
0x1290

Entry point:
55, 89, E5, 83, EC, 08, C7, 04, 24, 02, 00, 00, 00, FF, 15, 9C, 12, 41, 00, E8, A8, FE, FF, FF, 90, 8D, B4, 26, 00, 00, 00, 00, 55, 8B, 0D, DC, 12, 41, 00, 89, E5, 5D, FF, E1, 8D, 74, 26, 00, 55, 8B, 0D, C4, 12, 41, 00, 89, E5, 5D, FF, E1, 90, 90, 90, 90, 55, BA, 80, 00, 00, 00, 89, E5, 57, 31, C0, 8D, BD, E8, FE, FF, FF, 56, 53, 81, EC, 1C, 01, 00, 00, 89, 54, 24, 08, 89, 44, 24, 04, 89, 3C, 24, E8, EF, 3F, 00, 00, 89, 7C, 24, 04, C7, 04, 24, 18, 00, 00, 00, E8, 07, 0B, 00, 00, 85, C0, 0F, 84, 7C, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
6.7603

Packer / compiler:
MingWin32

Code size:
17.5 KB (17,920 bytes)

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

http://global-shared-files-lw.softonic.com/040/e43/.../Minecraft.exe

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