bitlord_installer.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 bitlord_installer.exe by House of Life has been detected as adware by 14 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the installCore installer. According to Microsoft Security Essentials, the software includes a bundle of the DealPly adware which is installed on a user's PC during setup using the InstallCore platform. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.bitlord.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
House of Life  (signed and verified)

MD5:
b2f6cdb3a07b440d5ef5452644d82e98

SHA-1:
fba5fa63dd50348d6a5d1e76f77c0a48ab44802d

SHA-256:
a7076c10355abcaf82ecfd4950c6dfeb6ab944ba3015808fc876348ff7f43cc8

Scanner detections:
14 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
This software bundler installs other potentially unwanted software, including DealPly. Which includes offers in a user's web browser which state they are "Powered by DealPly".

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:
12/26/2024 12:00:00 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/InstallCore.A.14
7.11.118.96

Bkav FE
W32.Cloddf4.Trojan
1.3.0.4613

Dr.Web
Adware.InstallCore.122
9.0.1.0357

ESET NOD32
Win32/InstallCore.CA.gen (variant)
7.9142

F-Prot
W32/InstallCore.R2.gen
v6.4.7.1.166

IKARUS anti.virus
SoftwareBundler
t3scan.2.2.29

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.174.10439

Malwarebytes
v2013.12.23.10

Microsoft Security Essentials
1.163.1557.0

Quick Heal
Trojan.Agent.gen
12.13.12.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.HouseofLife.R
14.8.7.21

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.InstallCore!6.4
23.00.65.131221

Sophos
Install Core
4.95

VIPRE Antivirus
Trojan.Win32.Generic
24092

File size:
711.4 KB (728,456 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Inno Setup)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\bitlord_installer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

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:jspyMJfsNtt/LjSA6etGoAjGLBL90ydG9XqkqHgi7NiARw56YQvFKAde4j5OVl:jayMJfsHt/LjH3tGoAKLX0ydG9arli2q

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 bitlord_installer.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 8 URLs.

http://www.bitlord.com/.../BitLordInstaller.exe

http://www.megadlcenter.com/sFodoJ__PHIfBj34VIRad3KZ0EGgu9nh02geVlVEgz3Dft3iJWPBvIQ2lu1AiKz5y1CexHjCqNk_gG1qJq_QijSXokkra76OeGlZrE1e3zBUN1R6KHVLL8O62yEt639xEXug00B2APjTBHDl0EkXgJo z5jWGMdcSykGTjFRzhFggzEg A9zIZFJ51i97uaVP1hUaBPeQA k5gJWx Yjoi xLn_nmYK01gcd_iuRvHvMIq22akVKLrxZktbwNZhbi0yF6sOTo506IHQAB7nMVAGYMWz1LaXbPyvP_GGqiDwgV3gCbLROcrSqBL50cIgBn_nZGwiXtAvC3XItqsX0luMsMq3jzWGmB6fQiGoZ47Yza7WMCEENlhoFc2Yp43sRfcZidILwT9Dv_IpLl1ebcA1wI6KwkZxDae7B7NS0n hPz9RnQJp07dK0AIUJJS8miRyUT_CwRri3o5OC2AlLU4zmtsyPtgtRWuf2UC_gHxOnblmBGAZSo9scI1aMIG0iNkQDL_Ng-Gz4AAMTOFpsLXbMpyVyQeBMeHHLg8IVp8wNx4DF8nh1K4pM13hsp3HBvEVGXVtGhx4XWeW8aVPgJ-e

http://qpdownload.com/download.php?name=bitlord

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-52-49-170-39.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (52.49.170.39:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to static.167.28.99.88.clients.your-server.de  (88.99.28.167:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-52-30-150-214.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (52.30.150.214:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-52-26-136-207.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com  (52.26.136.207:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-54-186-199-44.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com  (54.186.199.44:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-52-208-40-227.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (52.208.40.227:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to 92b91b35.rdns.100tb.com  (146.185.27.53:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to hosted-by.leaseweb.com  (199.58.87.151:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-54-207-11-184.sa-east-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (54.207.11.184:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-52-67-230-187.sa-east-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (52.67.230.187:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-52-39-235-174.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com  (52.39.235.174:80)

TCP (HTTP):

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-52-214-247-42.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com  (52.214.247.42:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to 92b91b2d.rdns.100tb.com  (146.185.27.45:80)

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