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sonic-the-hedgehog.exe

Play Turtle, LLC

The application sonic-the-hedgehog.exe by Play Turtle has been detected as adware by 6 anti-malware scanners. This is a setup program which is used to install the application. 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-pp1.com.
Publisher:
Play Turtle, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a6f5d054b9b36a41730e6003fdec77f4

SHA-1:
a698951054af800a51b889f43cb48b1674754364

SHA-256:
d888d2a660be4e56929526d63fdece34f95d0b97c039dbfaaf6139f22f1cb22e

Scanner detections:
6 / 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:
5/18/2024 7:59:04 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

avast!
Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
160327-1

AVG
Adware InstallCore.LW
2015.0.4355

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Application.InstallCore.AQ
11.5.0.6191

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.BP potentially unwanted application
8.0.319.0

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.B.gen
4.6.5.141

Reason Heuristics
PUP.EpicPlay.PlayTurt (M)
16.4.8.7

File size:
521.1 KB (533,632 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\sonic-the-hedgehog.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Play Turtle, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/10/2011 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
12/9/2012 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Play Turtle, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Play Turtle, LLC", L=Plantation, 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:
1FBA05C4A16403C30CAF42A3523B1862

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):
12288:yUjvK/Y9bVy6eL1TptQydOdEnQdFg45pdnXvLf0vHUkl4nirzYvVj:1rVReLrOdEmC2970v0kl4ngON

Entry address:
0x106F10

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 00, 49, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 10, F7, FF, C7, 87, 10, 77, 0C, 00, 47, 72, 3B, 23, 57, 83, CD, FF, EB, 0E, 90, 90, 90, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46...
 
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Entropy:
7.8482

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.22 (Delphi) stub

Code size:
480 KB (491,520 bytes)

The file sonic-the-hedgehog.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://installerlaunch-pp1.com/.../pp-icore-5.2.exe&dn=sonic-the-hedgehog.exe&sid=1579&pid=pp-ic-b&browser=ch&ptrk=p5iq1o1ulnh4trqoj99phgk043

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