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Help me assess the risk level of this application (Wemod trainer)

DrMrLordX

Lifer
I'm looking at using a trainer to cheat at my GoG edition of Bard's Tale 4. I identified a trainer application that can modify various settings in the game (enable unlimited HP, weak enemies, other things):


I submitted the file for analysis at virustotal and I got these results:


Interestingly enough, when I scanned the file locally, Windows Defender claimed it found no problems. So I loaded it up in Windows Sandbox, and sure enough it dropped some files on the VM. I searched the entire drive for the VM, turned on hidden files, zipped up all the files I could find that correspond to the timestamp of when the file dropper activated, and submitted the .zip file to virustotal. No hits.

Granted, if it did have a trojan payload delivery system, it could probably falsify file timestamps or prevent the OS from seeing the files unless in Safe Mode.

It appears to be a generic cheat engine that loads the correct configuration files for the game you've selected. It's nothing but a web installer.

Anyone else have any insight into this tool? I'm not so desperate to get out of my jam in a video game that I'm going to risk computer security, but at the same time, it'd be a shame not to use it if it's just false positives.

Anything that's a file dropper from an unsigned publisher that also can hook into a process in memory could set off some false positives. Could. But this kind of application is also where I would expect to find some malware.
 
Good find. Probably safe to use then. I need to see if Cheat Engine has any tables for Bard's Tale 4 as well . . . might be more useful.
 
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