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City Center Games (Extreme White Limited)

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application setup.exe by City Center Games (Extreme White Limited) 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 installCore installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from download.ewebdomrec.com.
Publisher:
City Center Games (Extreme White Limited)  (signed and verified)

Version:
106.0.0.0

MD5:
892dfcd72f79cc2ed68380cdc92f6ed0

SHA-1:
e37c95bbe980481ac82f40ada1113b48dacaadff

SHA-256:
7c357330b560376f22a20f4a8ec3bd75fec65b6d128766001a801d1c6884547c

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:
5/21/2024 10:20:54 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.ExtremeWhite.installCore.Installer (M)
16.2.17.0

File size:
1.6 MB (1,685,080 bytes)

Product version:
106.0.0.0

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
City Center Games (Extreme White Limited)

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
4/15/2015 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
4/15/2016 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=City Center Games (Extreme White Limited), O=City Center Games (Extreme White Limited), STREET=Tassou Papadopulu 6 (flat/office 22), L=Nicosia, S=Agios Dometios, PostalCode=2373, C=CY

Issuer:
CN=COMODO RSA Code Signing CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00808728FFBF020E8929813B59AA2EC529

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/17/2015 4:12:21 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:7az+9xkARsvTGF5yIxTgpSapCbYlrIGCA5Hi:Y0xkVTG/yIDkO

Entry address:
0x101470

Entry point:
E8, 46, 11, 01, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 57, 56, 8B, 74, 24, 10, 8B, 4C, 24, 14, 8B, 7C, 24, 0C, 8B, C1, 8B, D1, 03, C6, 3B, FE, 76, 08, 3B, F8, 0F, 82, 68, 03, 00, 00, 0F, BA, 25, 04, 7E, 58, 00, 01, 73, 07, F3, A4, E9, 17, 03, 00, 00, 81, F9, 80, 00, 00, 00, 0F, 82, CE, 01, 00, 00, 8B, C7, 33, C6, A9, 0F, 00, 00, 00, 75, 0E, 0F, BA, 25, 48, BE, 57, 00, 01, 0F, 82, DA, 04, 00, 00, 0F, BA, 25, 04, 7E, 58, 00, 00, 0F, 83, A7, 01, 00, 00, F7, C7, 03, 00, 00, 00, 0F, 85, B8, 01, 00, 00...
 
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Code size:
1.1 MB (1,203,200 bytes)

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

http://download.ewebdomrec.com/69/all/cp/.../setup.exe

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