minecraft 1.9 prerelease server - bitlordsetup.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 minecraft 1.9 prerelease server - bitlordsetup.exe by House of Life has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. The program is a setup application that uses the installCore installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download Minecraft but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
House of Life  (signed and verified)

MD5:
77c6f863f1078fbe984383f2ee597185

SHA-1:
c1402649ef8c42fe5080f67d0db8481a7b71bcc1

SHA-256:
d2856e69062fa343b3d3ef2012403fd0652c37cfc61b546fe6c43155820bf18a

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Adware

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

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:
11/16/2024 12:31:03 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore (M)
16.8.3.12

File size:
634.5 KB (649,688 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\minecraft 1.9 prerelease server - bitlordsetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/14/2015 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/14/2017 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=House of Life, OU=Property, O=House of Life, STREET=Oelnes, L=Sogndal, S=Outside United States, PostalCode=6856, C=NO

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

Serial number:
7D10B220FDFA59C2BD4E1AF300EBA218

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/27/2015 8:25:58 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:M28A95eexoMe00iy0ckUntZ1R8lNVQVp0IazPkkkuUZcJMzAiINvrlbT4cQ2QX:n86eeztvy0ckYiVPkkkugEXZ4cQD

Entry address:
0x322B

Entry point:
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Code size:
23.5 KB (24,064 bytes)

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