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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 google chrome.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:
c0d1cda411c8bacc6db50bbaa8b08259

SHA-1:
02de004c91f6fc40c8a90b0c83e3a6e4f727bdc7

SHA-256:
ba1a0245e83d590900ec77fed6679033ea100f1281a42b2985752a52b5c9b23b

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:
11/15/2024 12:31:54 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.4.14.5

File size:
520.6 KB (533,104 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\google chrome.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:
7/9/2015 5:53:19 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:F94hz08xqd0h7WgX3NaT9CP7acQXvQdgkyKL/IzGbUt577T:TWxq+hN3Nhdg/yqJ

Entry address:
0x1AA3CB

Entry point:
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Packer / compiler:
ASPack v1.08.04

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,216,000 bytes)

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

http://admin.mymagnofile.com/xHifBggxej1Hr8YD9o4Hpogr5WduN8RjCHYjmYlJRqprQStAKClqW4XHIcl_usAKRh_0c4dVs7nVFgdlJC6DnDg66aYzKc26uwE2W3IeL-V8sbsHX0XDJYUQ-bh-FWvm-7YkHHDtFJXZwKCubaE0MXYboqCGwaB7d-sjYGqajkFJSSC9OzJvZu9QUe6qSnnUTgxvjcP4mAK4bNe1GLaqnMGXRtFXZq_ylN_iVs8HK5OMmt0-dy4e6KmGyvQ4dDR-tRxQ5AP3oYUarRvnT-VIx5M75JOGRTOF2gVMm0HoiARxgnjbBV0qCeyGERmjnZVwDGsuXwtfXVDrTF1I1-LDrlnH8TTmG1C6u-DlSHBzn0qeBKLxjw1vPijLnmQeduvl5pxdRvs78omGFXASTBLr60cL4R0LAb5AHUR-WNlbmVwdUyQA2dG6vJBHBadMWC4l

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