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palisades-guardian.exe

Fearless Arcade LLC

The application palisades-guardian.exe by Fearless Arcade has been detected as adware by 3 anti-malware scanners. It uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from installerlaunch-mtfg1.com.
Publisher:
Fearless Arcade LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
279725a253153b6145776b488cd6b89f

SHA-1:
ba9e1f88d7f9c16efd7954d6d2cde22618ee5e47

SHA-256:
2316fdf81c4194e35e45e02d5ced2874c5089712a2c0d7f941f4cf8229536a34

Scanner detections:
3 / 68

Status:
Adware

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

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 2:05:10 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.Q potentially unwanted application
8.0.319.0

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.C.gen
4.6.5.141

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore.Fearless (M)
16.7.20.8

File size:
1 MB (1,070,720 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\palisades-guardian.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Fearless Arcade LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/11/2011 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/10/2012 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Fearless Arcade LLC, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Fearless Arcade LLC, L=Weston, S=Florida, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
7688FA05071CA2DF2AB3DE5427A46EA3

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 6:22:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:zPqxmfxN1ixtiZy6MntoNXfRya9YST1oUrp3v:zqxUH4iZN80PsbST1D

Entry address:
0xC1A73

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, 63, D8, 49, 00, E8, 85, E7, FF, FF, 6C, 79, F0, 98, FD, C3, 73, 83, FE, B7, 61, A5, 3F, B5, 05, 1B, 6F, 83, 89, 29, 89, 04, 1B, E5, 20, 68, 28, DD, 74, 60, EF, E4, 8F, 40, 8D, 9C, BF, 24, 20, 5E, 2B, 71, D3, 90, 5C, 5C, D2, 9B, 00, 3D, 74, FB, 37, DF, 2F, 34, 2D, 21, 1E, 8B, DD, 75, 20, E9, 33, 43, E5, 37, EF, 0E, 6D, 11, 0A, F5, C5, B8, 61, 07, 1D, 90, 0B, 45, 67, 8D, 89, 8A, 2B, 6A, AC, 96, 41, 8B, 05, EC, 8E, D8, 09, 56, 08, 02, 6A, 2B, 8E, F5, 39, BA, 68, 71, C7, 71, 6A, FD...
 
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Entropy:
6.7124

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
786.5 KB (805,376 bytes)

The file palisades-guardian.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installerlaunch-mtfg1.com/.../mtfg-ic-5.6.exe&dn=palisades-guardian.exe&sid=4721-5.6&pid=mtfg-ic-5.6&browser=ch&ptrk=mkmblf2lqoqboj00ptnbtadlr1

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