Summary
- Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution game installs malware on PCs, accessing admin privileges and stealing data.
- The game appears to be a tool for creators to install spyware and viruses, violating Steam’s rules.
- Users are advised not to download or install the game, delete all files if previously installed, and change passwords.
Last month, a game called PirateFi was released on Steam. The basic survival sim was quickly realized to contain malware, leading Valve to remove it from its storefront and recommend that any player who played the game reset their PC and reinstall their operating system.
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A little over a month later, another game seems to be skirting Steam’s rules, directing players to its website to download a demo and then installing a range of viruses on their PC.
Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution Is Seemingly Another Game That Installs Malware On Your PC
We won’t be posting a link to the game here, and we recommend you don’t go looking for it, just in case.
Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution isn’t technically out yet. Its Steam store page says the game has a planned release date of Q2 2025, but it doesn’t seem like it will get that far.
Over on Reddit, eagle-eyed players have spotted that this game is seemingly just a tool for its creators to install malware and spyware onto your computer.
First shared by user Feral_Wasp, they noticed that although the game isn’t available for installation through Steam, the store page links directly to a suspiciously basic website. This website allows the player to download a demo of Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution, which then installs a bunch of bad stuff onto your PC.
Further analysis of the files from meantbent3 found that the malware accesses administrator privileges, bypasses Window’s credential encryption, and steals the data on your PC. They called it “something new and clever,” with the malware “mostly undetected by VirusTotal.” They recommend, if you did install it, to delete every file it created and change your password for any accounts you have.
Another Reddit user, Erroredv1, found that the file caused Firefox to use around 10GB of RAM.
The store page on steam now has a warning that “Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution is no longer available on the Steam store.”
The whole situation is full of red flags, directing you away from Steam, poorly rendered visuals, and a typo in the game’s main image, so we just hope that nobody was silly enough to fall for the trick.
Steam
- Brand
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Valve
- Original Release Date
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September 12, 2003
- Original MSRP (USD)
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N/A