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

EXE

GlyphInstall.exe

30716a6f8108e1c96b75f189d72d0522

DLL

cortex_sdk.dll

4d7bdaeba12fe7d2a1ec63135147ad50

DLL

cudart32_41_0.dll

6b6d344bd47d75e69e33f7497e4ee9ba

EXE

fxbgres.exe

24b44eca0686bab00ac158893cd8b0c3

DLL

fxcli.dll

9c8b64587035336e81e54f16880d1fd5

DLL

fxeditor.dll

d800c64600138a500a0224e67f7354fe

EXE

fxgame.exe

c6ad6906019a4da76a8860b596899913

DLL

fxgamelogic.dll

6441623d4199f4bdc8e27bfa1b9c009e

DLL

fxgfxui.dll

c0a6d763028fcb41d5d4e9cfbad59463

DLL

fxgfxuilogic.dll

c0857e9c36788652519aa67caf0be986