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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 {blocked}.exe by House of Life has been detected as adware by 13 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.
Publisher:
House of Life  (signed and verified)

MD5:
9a3116c281b4f49483876c84a094575e

SHA-1:
db20b77d01715e2af497a4e3d2cbdc1d5f5e4470

SHA-256:
b7fe6827962754936ab3b6960ba2f932d8b0b451f39ce61a340957ec44846715

Scanner detections:
13 / 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 is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 2:52:41 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.InstallCore
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/InstallCore.Gen7
7.11.145.26

AVG
Downloader
2015.0.3495

Dr.Web
Trojan.Packed.24524
9.0.1.0114

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.ES (variant)
8.9715

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

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.176.11861

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.InstallCore
v2014.04.24.07

Reason Heuristics
PUP.HouseofLife.?
14.8.7.21

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.XPACK-LNR/Heur!1.5594
23.00.65.14422

Sophos
Install Core Click run software
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downware.InstallCore
3.12.26.0

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
28564

File size:
673.5 KB (689,632 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\bitlord\downloads\bitlordinstaller - the wanted - word of mouth (deluxe version) {2013-album}.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
House of Life

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
6/17/2013 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
6/18/2014 12:59:59 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:
6/19/1992 11:22:17 PM

OS version:
1.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:uh9yMJfsGNkpTsY2bANo7+CJYQdew7rzXbllBfu2QY44XWTkT8HTjuQjgnVwxcTa:eyMJfsC2qC/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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Entropy:
7.8235

Packer / compiler:
Inno Setup v5.x - Installer Maker

Code size:
36 KB (36,864 bytes)

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