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simple minds - celebrate the greatest hits 2013 - bitlordinstaller.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 simple minds - celebrate the greatest hits 2013 - bitlordinstaller.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. The file has been seen being downloaded from isohunt.to.
Publisher:
House of Life  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a3794ea258b83b757f4dc57f686519d7

SHA-1:
8cd128dce2ea5de4ecc4fc2ed58ac4516caca047

SHA-256:
25331fab2c11611121c4f0c28c22ee1ff6350f4b6730e4f9e2d9192b2214ea59

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 '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:
11/15/2024 7:11:07 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.installCore.HouseofL (M)
16.6.12.15

File size:
2.6 MB (2,755,664 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
installCore (using Nullsoft Install System)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\simple minds - celebrate the greatest hits 2013 - bitlordinstaller.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
House of Life

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/7/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/8/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=House of Life, OU=IT, O=House of Life, STREET=Olnes, 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:
00CCBF966B40EC386CE6666D5251C3C419

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/11/2014 9:03:36 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:9X9tQ7SL7PEBfo+tDDD7JhXkadd1Jv0G9hi74QondCwJ+IhWP7L:9X9tQGDCfv3JhXZdrPvA4RUsk

Entry address:
0x3217

Entry point:
81, EC, 84, 01, 00, 00, 53, 55, 56, 33, DB, 57, 89, 5C, 24, 18, C7, 44, 24, 10, 30, 91, 40, 00, 89, 5C, 24, 20, C6, 44, 24, 14, 20, FF, 15, 34, 70, 40, 00, 68, 01, 80, 00, 00, FF, 15, B4, 70, 40, 00, 53, FF, 15, 8C, 72, 40, 00, 6A, 08, A3, 98, 37, 42, 00, E8, AD, 2D, 00, 00, A3, E4, 36, 42, 00, 53, 8D, 44, 24, 38, 68, 60, 01, 00, 00, 50, 53, 68, A0, EC, 41, 00, FF, 15, 64, 71, 40, 00, 68, E4, 91, 40, 00, 68, E0, 2E, 42, 00, E8, 57, 2A, 00, 00, FF, 15, B0, 70, 40, 00, BD, 00, 90, 42, 00, 50, 55, E8, 45, 2A...
 
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Entropy:
7.8554

Packer / compiler:
Nullsoft install system v2.x

Code size:
23 KB (23,552 bytes)

The file simple minds - celebrate the greatest hits 2013 - bitlordinstaller.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://isohunt.to/torrents/bitlord?name=Simple Minds - Celebrate The Greatest Hits 2013&magnet=magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4c7618076cbce036d35c6d1d4e8621ccb5d6da97&dn=Simple Minds - Celebrate The Greatest Hits 2013&xl=523558512&dl=523558512&tr=udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce&tr=udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce&tr=http://cpleft.com:2710/announce&tr=http://.../announce

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