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
DLL
e98883eac6d976d3a9e918d6b14c20f1
DLL
30d5aec3d1ed938b68184a5189b2d807
DLL
b8dc6edfe6cd6e8687b1c524fb4ebb36
DLL
d5d06092f9eb1fbdb0b6e6806f4b6187
DLL
99d6707ebdfa89169bfbbeb49767d980
DLL
de1a555f0e015c10f3ecf80cb2d42dcf
DLL
a074bf2bcaf5808b56c56d33d364fc4c
DLL
69bee18efe39e0bd24b8ac979b560f39
DLL
fc79f85cdd7cea1cf7ff09ff39d94967
DLL
cd09cdd6fe37e2e30ecbad5663df5523