passengertrainsimulator.exe

Gamehitzone Inc.

The application passengertrainsimulator.exe by Gamehitzone has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. The file has been seen being downloaded from files.downloadnow.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
GameHitZone.com   (signed by Gamehitzone Inc.)

MD5:
f8800610867473e90e252a860c13f7dc

SHA-1:
46bde19f5677e4f4f2576e4603879097f7ad175c

SHA-256:
2176abbea2eb73eb1d365bb015070c462285fd52868c153ab0cad6cc24c0dd7c

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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.

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 7:13:14 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Gamehitzone.Installer (M)
15.10.8.21

File size:
40.7 MB (42,697,176 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
GlobalSign nv-sa

Valid from:
10/3/2014 11:33:05 AM

Valid to:
1/3/2018 10:33:05 AM

Subject:
E=abuse@gamehitzone.com, CN=Gamehitzone Inc., O=Gamehitzone Inc., L=Belize City, S=Belize, C=BZ

Issuer:
CN=GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, C=BE

Serial number:
11212DA109C716E14D8F300F2D8DD9ACEBA0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/13/2013 4:19:32 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
786432:FuiEhhTlpCqw4a6bLeaazchIQFY0hSgy4UzIsszSXL/T/KQmiMU:FOhPpCqLa6bqaazlMzB81gKzTypq

Entry address:
0x113BC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, A4, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, C4, 89, 45, C0, 89, 45, A4, 89, 45, D0, 89, 45, C8, 89, 45, CC, 89, 45, D4, 89, 45, D8, 89, 45, EC, B8, 2C, 00, 41, 00, E8, E8, 51, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 9E, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 5A, 1A, 41, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 48, 5B, 41, 00, E8, 16, D8, FF, FF, E8, 65, D3, FF, FF, 80, 3D, DC, 2A, 41, 00, 00, 74, 0C, E8, 2B, D9, FF, FF, 33, C0, E8, 80, 32, FF, FF, 8D, 55, EC, 33, C0, E8, E2, A3, FF, FF, 8B, 55, EC, B8, 50, 86...
 
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Entropy:
7.9991

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
63.5 KB (65,024 bytes)

The file passengertrainsimulator.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 13 URLs.

http://files.downloadnow.com/s/software/14/46/85/.../PassengerTrainSimulator.exe

http://www.freewarefiles.com/downloads_counter.php?programid=105619

http://l.gamerab.com/passenger-train-simulator

http://ftp-stahuj.centrum.cz/dl/2624d39f01b41a6716051af7429ab965/580a822c/stahuj/download/software/secured/p/passenger-train-simulator/.../PassengerTrainSimulator.exe

http://192.168.43.1:33455/static/storage/sdcard0/.../PassengerTrainSimulator.exe

https://passenger-train-simulator.en.softonic.com/download-tracker?th=1/.../EqUPV5noGjFRkbdvN9nGGJ0=

http://r2.computerbild.de/exec/r2r.pl?m=w-cobi;u=http://d.computerbild.de/downloads/.../PassengerTrainSimulator.exe

http://indir.gezginler.net/i/34713/.../

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