What is BlackGold?

BlackGold is software application developed by Snail Games USA. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 55.66% of installations running this operating system. The most common release is 0.0.1.015 with 70.75% of all installations currently using this version.

BlackGold is most popular in the United States with 69.67% of installations residing in this country.

BlackGold adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, BlackGold is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:

Steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

Steam.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{35064B2B-D7EC-4CD0-8082-7FF0A045A53A}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Registry entries:

Steam.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Steam' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -silent.

Software Details

URL:

https://bg.snailgame.com

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\blackhold

Uninstaller:

"C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{F7731C17-DA4F-440C-9802-00ED509B9F77}\setup.exe" -runfromtemp -l0x0409 -removeonly

Size:

0.00 B

Language:

English

BlackGold Executable Details

Primary executable:

EMEVersionCheck.exe

Name:

BlackGold

Path:

C:\blackhold\EMEVersionCheck.exe

MD5:

3f383ab06b42e90e725d584d373028ee

SHA-1:

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SHA-256:

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File Type

Filename

MD5

DLL

video.dll

4a7d9aac31cc857eec4c728d6ceb0daf

DLL

SDL2.dll

70809788af72530ae89e18b55323079b

EXE

streaming_client.exe

5343a390558a7550aa3abbe207fa0e3f

DLL

vstdlib_s64.dll

cb7f8829dfee17a920e4238f20c7f6ac

DLL

Steam.dll

7039fda862d5643bf40674b1185df435

DLL

vstdlib_s.dll

e1d44176aa3f129364a1f2fdad8d63c7

DLL

tier0_s64.dll

5077a2bbc6114efa7f88f3a1e710a71f

DLL

tier0_s.dll

7be42a98d312873a4dde0d330129142b

DLL

SteamUI.dll

25a02c060726872c62b01a20d30a903f

EXE

steamerrorreporter64.exe

0f8b19e2652fef7e3512f0e764ae3395