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chromesetup.exe

Digital Plugin SL

This is the Softpulse installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application chromesetup.exe by Digital Plugin SL 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 Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download Google's Chrome web browser but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
96c9cd4054ce33b41e024c4bfe12d8b4

SHA-1:
7e54c52e0e6ba57778dfd23b03bc8aa3d434bb1f

SHA-256:
f0aeb0ce28210b77036fb6db9fb608823fa3a66a7f49c7e924bc134ada5988ee

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:
11/23/2024 1:11:26 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.13.2

File size:
537.8 KB (550,672 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\chromesetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/28/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/29/2015 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Guia de Isora, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4ED5D9A2F23912A93AD2937C038B77F4

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/19/2015 10:45:51 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 14, AD, 59, 00, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 89, 08, 50, 45, 43, 6F, 6D, 70, 61, 63, 74, 32, 00, C3, 16, 69, C4, 2B, 0C, FD, 10, 21, B8, BE, BF, 26, C7, 95, 89, 78, 6C, A7, 23, 8F, 5B, 52, 93, B6, 09, 50, 3B, 77, 79, 6E, F2, 3C, 7A, 5C, AE, 5A, E6, 70, 5D, 19, 90, DE, 77, 60, 32, 8C, 94, D5, 38, 27, C0, 43, FE, DF, CD, 89, 92, 96, 91, E1, B1, 14, 95, 1E, 0D, B0, ED, 06, AC, A6, 86, 5D, CF, 8D, 08, E2, A0, 1A, F7, 48, D2, 90, 1E, D8, F6, CB, 54, 16, 9F, 66, C8, A7...
 
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Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1 MB (1,076,736 bytes)

The file chromesetup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following URL.

http://admin1.magnofiles.com/SC1tQ_AIcjbpAy4l7eO_o40_X6BwcLaA2wEglX0xjx-O0u0hfFAdr3FbMylQDZkiafJADeEBaU2wv-llpMzQJFhuPig1ttXUO_r9BO5lvt-illX3S0FY1Qr9f-pv_Wih4v3ZS-_6f1GvJSb4WDDtx7QXOAPXwYDz318RZ4mX3HUkBnnDXBbcBNZ1mcJd-6ubyyZP_og4w6rSHZpgc1dAlmSdMXWe0x5vxtRmb7RtQQo

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