home

sonic-the-hedgehog.exe

Game Awesome LLC

The application sonic-the-hedgehog.exe by Game Awesome 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 installerlaunch-ggh1.com.
Publisher:
Game Awesome LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
4737b872825f7856433455d33b76e12e

SHA-1:
f5de1bef5b89c7c053389191c0dafa02c6c3d6a6

SHA-256:
ff9de2ad83808fb759eba75accdae6cffbb4d4d32465ea22a7a7f000b950c967

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:
4/26/2024 12:35:10 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
17.2.15.9

File size:
623.1 KB (638,080 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Game Awesome LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
12/9/2012 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/6/2015 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Game Awesome LLC, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Game Awesome 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:
082CB3EC06ACAE2DAA2C8AA5685B84F6

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

Entry address:
0x134880

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 00, 4A, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 10, F6, FF, C7, 87, 10, 47, 0E, 00, D1, 73, 03, B1, 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...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.8917

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

Code size:
596 KB (610,304 bytes)

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

http://installerlaunch-ggh1.com/index.php?dl=download.installerlaunch-ggh1.com/ggh_7126.exe&dn=sonic-the-hedgehog.exe&sid=4721-ISM-v1&pid=1289&browser=chrome&ptrk=bjnp0s3fvp7ko3utlrue883042&SKIP_ALL=false&UNINSTALL=false&DOP=2&typ=http://.../ty.php

Remove sonic-the-hedgehog.exe - Powered by Reason Core Security
herdProtect is a second line of defense malware removal platform powered by 68 anti-malware engines in the cloud. Since no single anti-malware program is perfect 100% of the time, herdProtect utilizes a 'herd' of multiple engines to guarantee the widest coverage and the earliest possible detection.