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palisades-guardian.exe

Sweet Gamer LLC

The application palisades-guardian.exe by Sweet Gamer has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 6 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-gn1.com.
Publisher:
Sweet Gamer LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
57b6860c7d5e585570dfc59916270d04

SHA-1:
d3808754ff55373d806f6d85bfd8b18ff66deb2c

SHA-256:
10cf1afc4031a118c552c52f1556850f590d158e3894a909a71b604acecec30d

Scanner detections:
6 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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

Analysis date:
4/24/2024 4:38:14 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:InstallCore-GD [PUP]
160119-0

Dr.Web
Adware.InstallCore.72
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Strictor.101483
10.0.0.5366

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.AW potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore.SweetGamer (M)
16.2.4.4

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4835495
46962

File size:
1 MB (1,092,440 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Sweet Gamer LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

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

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

Subject:
CN=Sweet Gamer LLC, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Sweet Gamer LLC, L=Sunrise, 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:
4621306F285D000FDDD0445E05FEEF1E

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/19/1992 5:22:17 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:AjmHiuPCd9bFYwbdF278BGwL+xC8EuE2aW6NZ:YoEhbdFRBGwLGCvufD6N

Entry address:
0xCAB80

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, F0, B8, 9C, 44, 40, 00, E8, 1E, E8, FF, FF, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, C0, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 46, 74, 11, 40, 00, 08, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, EC, 11, 40, 00, 80, 11, 40, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, 00, EC, 11, 40, 00, 0C, 00, 00, 00, B0, 10, 40, 00, 60, 37, 40, 00, 20, 60, 40, 00, 2C, 60, 40, 00, 74, 37, 40, 00, 68, 37, 40, 00, 3C, 60, 40, 00, CC, 34, 40, 00, 08, 35, 40, 00, 11, 54, 49, 6E, 74, 65, 72...
 
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Entropy:
6.9319

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
828 KB (847,872 bytes)

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

http://installerlaunch-gn1.com/index.php?dl=download.installerlaunch-gn2.com/GN-iCore-GC.exe&dn=palisades-guardian.exe&sid=4721-ISM-5.6&pid=1207&browser=ch&ptrk=2vd206rqqtn1g3scumgi3qj893&typ=http://.../ty.php

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