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:
7/6/2025 7:43:42 AM UTC  (today)

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.