bitlordinstaller - photozoom.pro.3.1.0.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 - photozoom.pro.3.1.0.exe by House of Life has been detected as adware by 17 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the installCore installer. The setup program uses the InstallCore engine which may bundle additional software offers including toolbars and browser extensions. The file has been seen being downloaded from link.torrentreactor.net.
Publisher:
House of Life  (signed and verified)

MD5:
1ba7199298f97ec58946e3caed9c43ac

SHA-1:
0a2267ac8f2d28bcbe5a3043895490e3c847b292

SHA-256:
e08e0f88a59016a91cb8952e020da231f086eae40e1acb670f60fbf3c6bbefc4

Scanner detections:
17 / 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 4:30:51 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.InstallCore
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
7.11.182.216

AVG
Win.Threat.Medium
2014.0.4189

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Installcore-253
0.98/19576

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.Installcore.HL
19980

Dr.Web
Trojan.Packed.24524
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.BY potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

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

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.Downloader
t3scan.1.8.3.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.185.13866

Malwarebytes
v2014.11.03.06

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.InstallCore.dfgmdk
0.28.6.62995

Reason Heuristics
PUP.HouseofLife.c
14.11.3.6

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.XPACK-LNR/Heur!1.5594
23.00.65.141101

Vba32 AntiVirus
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
34232

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 - photozoom.pro.3.1.0.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
6/17/2013 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/18/2014 1:59:59 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 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:Ch9yMJfsGNkpTsY2bANo7+CJYQdew7rzXbllBfu2QY44XWTkT8HTjuQjgnVwxcTa:SyMJfsC2qC/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)

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