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
197ef02d5ca9995e338fdc50e833c592
DLL
ed7c67497f8a2b794d2012b649e183a1
DLL
c7a3ad3747c967a31269e4fe06206721
DLL
52390b5338fbc8adb2cfee2534b026d5
DLL
01c682ea38cde9736ee70242e31a8a89
DLL
11bbaca1d9a6bfe70a58239e8435c525
DLL
7f5ce2c6f1ae495900d73cf5faa42186
DLL
1c2fca6a02027a335c7efcb82e40173d
DLL
235d9ce1524d896d2a1238843fc3491f
DLL
73272c6cc0731cb51ce151fed3e2cb6e