minecraft.exe

Setup

click trust opT

This is the OutBrowse Revenyou installer which bundles offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted and installed without consent. The application minecraft.exe by click trust opT has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the OutBrowse Revenyou installer. 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:
click trust opT  (signed and verified)

Product:
Setup

Version:
1.9.3.0

MD5:
d67ab8cbc51923ea75668a0ae656816c

SHA-1:
f7b272a9e587386a420464a1f7b51b184ff27d3a

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

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:
5/14/2024 10:47:41 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Outbrowse.clicktru.Bundler (M)
16.4.30.21

File size:
1.1 MB (1,160,496 bytes)

Product version:
1.9.3.0

Copyright:
Setup

Original file name:
Ionic.Zip-2015Mar17-223221-7925dd50-6965-4473-9cce-3602e6c9ef42.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
OutBrowse Revenyou

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\My documents\downloads\minecraft.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
3/15/2015 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/27/2016 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=click trust opT, O=click trust opT, L=Dublin, S=Dublin, C=IE

Issuer:
CN=thawte SHA256 Code Signing CA, O="thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
2DED1B7D5C81898CA25652B6EF8A0EE1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/17/2015 6:32:22 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows Console

Linker version:
8.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:fMiy4IadS4ms5I6e66fEheKhEsnNUy/ulYI+LYaYrc+OVwWXJQox7XWu2yplGEhU:fbSaE4mvt/Js4lYI+L2lO7vFTYbJHpF

Entry address:
0x75F3E

Entry point:
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[+]

Entropy:
7.5820

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
464 KB (475,136 bytes)

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