BitLordInstaller - Barely Legal - June 2014.PDF.exe

House of Life

The installer utilizes the installCore download manager which may bundle additional offers for various ad-supported toolbars, extensions and utilities. The application BitLordInstaller - Barely Legal - June 2014.PDF.exe by House of Life has been detected as adware by 18 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the installCore installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. The file has been seen being downloaded from links2.fulldls.com.
Publisher:
House of Life  (signed and verified)

MD5:
cad4940d6a209901b5f7114690e14295

SHA-1:
8c0f3d0b8b3c8ddcfcbaa2d8950241b466726948

SHA-256:
13e2b3df63f2782b5c41269be0b8b8b14c4c208cd7d8c2d87b2af76a256fd868

Scanner detections:
18 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the InstallCore download manager to install additional potentially unwanted software which may include extensions such as DealPly and various toolbars.

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 11:56:44 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.InstallCore
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
7.11.131.248

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader.ATS
2014.0.4007

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.Installcore.HL
19188

Dr.Web
Trojan.Fakealert.36624
9.0.1.0226

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.ES (variant)
8.9430

F-Prot
W32/A-42c63c6c
v6.4.7.1.166

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.Downloader
t3scan.1.7.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13054

Malwarebytes
v2014.08.14.10

McAfee
Trojan.Artemis!CAD4940D6A20
16.8.708.2

Qihoo 360 Security
HEUR/Malware.QVM20.Gen
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.HouseofLife.o
14.8.14.7

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.XPACK-LNR/Heur!1.5594
23.00.65.14812

Vba32 AntiVirus
3.12.24.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
32186

File size:
673.5 KB (689,632 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\bitlordinstaller - barely legal - june 2014.pdf.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
6/17/2013 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/18/2014 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=House of Life, O=House of Life, STREET=Ølnes, L=Sogndal, S=Sogn og Fjordane, PostalCode=6856, C=NO

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00B04F15C36092438970725F31E534E1C7

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 1:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:Vh9yMJfsGNkpTsY2bANo7+CJYQdew7rzXbllBfu2QY44XWTkT8HTjuQjgnVwxcTa:ZyMJfsC2qC/xQowZrfu2B4u2kT8HTpgi

Entry address:
0x98CC

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, C4, CC, 53, 56, 57, 33, C0, 89, 45, F0, 89, 45, DC, E8, FA, 97, FF, FF, E8, 01, AA, FF, FF, E8, 2C, CC, FF, FF, E8, 73, CC, FF, FF, E8, 0A, F3, FF, FF, E8, 71, F4, FF, FF, 33, C0, 55, 68, 76, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 30, 64, 89, 20, 33, D2, 55, 68, 2C, 9F, 40, 00, 64, FF, 32, 64, 89, 22, A1, 14, B0, 40, 00, E8, 9B, FE, FF, FF, E8, 26, FA, FF, FF, 8D, 55, F0, 33, C0, E8, E0, D0, FF, FF, 8B, 55, F0, B8, D8, BD, 40, 00, E8, AB, 98, FF, FF, 6A, 02, 6A, 00, 6A, 01, 8B, 0D, D8, BD, 40, 00, B2, 01, B8...
 
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Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
36 KB (36,864 bytes)

The file BitLordInstaller - Barely Legal - June 2014.PDF.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.