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minecraft-setup.exe

Spiral Media

The application minecraft-setup.exe by Spiral Media 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 Tomorrow Software Installer installer. The installer is marketed through download protals and search ads as Minecraft but will also install additional software offers which include adware, PUPs and browser toolbars.
Publisher:
FYI Fun Installer Setup  (signed by Spiral Media)

Product:
FYI Fun Installer Setup

Version:
3.9.3.6729

MD5:
99bea57a9c41d160e24795bda5e088ad

SHA-1:
675576b29a8840ac6aac2ebc8308eab2b362eb11

SHA-256:
41e0356321b709c05aa2c89fa380128709d0416e65e83fd99b68137763e10bfa

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 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
5/6/2024 7:36:57 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.TomorrowSoftware.SpiralMedia.Bundler (M)
16.2.5.7

File size:
868.9 KB (889,768 bytes)

Product version:
3.9.3.6729

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2015

Original file name:
setup.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Tomorrow Software Installer

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\minecraft-setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Spiral Media

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
10/13/2015 7:17:39 PM

Valid to:
10/13/2016 7:17:39 PM

Subject:
CN=Spiral Media, O=Spiral Media, L=San Francisco, S=California, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
6FFD2B025FCB30E8

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/3/2014 11:37:33 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:QyTohPU5CUVwmajfvK9ETAbkOjUqB/a2faeXv3Zm5299Dk1jrJeqj2pID8j7IPIj:Q0qigmawbrJB/7RPZKm0m0PTEn3P6c

Entry address:
0x262B

Entry point:
E8, E0, B2, 00, 00, E9, E2, AB, 00, 00, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 81, EC, 1C, 02, 00, 00, 53, 55, 8B, AC, 24, 28, 02, 00, 00, 56, 57, 6A, 01, 55, C7, 44, 24, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, E8, 3F, 3C, 00, 00, D9, 7C, 24, 1A, 0F, B7, 44, 24, 1A, 0D, 00, 0C, 00, 00, 89, 44, 24, 1C, 8D, 44, 24, 24, 50, D9, 6C, 24, 20, 6A, 00, 6A, 02, 55, DF, 7C, 24, 2C, 8B, 74, 24, 2C, D9, 6C, 24, 2A, E8, 1E, 3B, 00, 00, 8B, 4C, 24, 34, 8B, F8, 83, C4, 18, 8D, 1C, 0F, 89, 5C, 24, 14, 85, FF, 75, 11, 55, E8, 14, 3B, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.9690  (probably packed)

Code size:
52.5 KB (53,760 bytes)

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