Pixel Piracy

Pixel Piracy

by Vitali Kirpu

What is Pixel Piracy?

Pixel Piracy is software application developed by Vitali Kirpu. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 50.57% of installations running this operating system. Pixel Piracy's installer is typically 231.00 MB in size and installs around 60 files.

Pixel Piracy is most popular in the United States with 62.20% of installations residing in this country.

Pixel Piracy adds 3 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Pixel Piracy is known to create 2 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:
  • Steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe'.
  • PixelPiracy.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Pixel Piracy\PixelPiracy.exe'.
Scheduled tasks:
  • Steam.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{D81E6936-0DAD-40A1-BA4D-6DFE27C54BDF}' (runs on registration).
  • GameOverlayUI.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Steam Overlaylol'.
  • DXSETUP.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{83EE4058-A0A8-44B6-A116-14CD927D91B6}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • Steam.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Steam_Reg_HKCURun_S-1-5-21-3420527040-1261894735-2970360055-1001.
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://www.piracysim.com
Support:
https://support.steampowered.com
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Pixel Piracy
Uninstaller:
"C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" steaC://uninstall/264140
Size:
231.00 MB
Language:
English

Pixel Piracy Executable Details

Primary executable:
PixelPiracy.exe
Name:
Pixel Piracy
Path:
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Pixel Piracy\PixelPiracy.exe
MD5:
b27ef47fadd863f81d53a1233327ebf9
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Pixel Piracy
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
ff74d2a2e3a3615a765b5181db18551d
DLL
173c217e677c4b0c4f8a6d54ba13bf9b
DLL
c18caa9ba4f06a5d226a892df6dc1d72
DLL
52a41f0e49b2208df75609699fc7254c
DLL
a7532e66ea2f168a0970e829d8986423
DLL
37d899543052126d48c5f5baaf5522c2
DLL
26ed47513966000fa9072750901bbf7e
DLL
2516b89d992e4febf659a54b07a5c996
DLL
b0ac27b119bd625c6633d4185fa4d00d
DLL
1677422259270c785a969fd5b342962a