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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. The installer is marketed through download protals and search ads as Google's Chrome web browser but will also install additional software offers which include adware, PUPs and browser toolbars.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
b726b97779c91e6f44f6f6c1d1b36748

SHA-1:
d14f3c8ad3d257e6c36922507dd8f2c1ea78f6e4

SHA-256:
e8baae2746533210e21ba5930c19e79488cbb2991dee385d8d526fa64ebb4880

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 an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
11/2/2024 5:18:40 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.15.8

File size:
549.7 KB (562,888 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:
7/27/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/28/2015 6:59:59 PM

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:
5/6/2015 6:19:45 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 4C, 2D, 5D, 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, 6D, 38, BB, 50, 36, 75, FB, 3B, 60, C4, 48, 29, 15, 6B, 4C, 34, C3, 3E, E2, 96, 59, 1C, 87, 3A, AC, 65, C6, FB, B3, ED, 39, 6D, 9B, 76, B1, 97, 77, 3C, 40, 88, E0, 34, EF, 2C, B3, 43, 62, 23, 9D, FC, 26, 48, 51, 8C, A5, D4, 9F, 3F, 8F, 88, 86, 55, A6, 23, 64, B0, 58, 6C, 3C, 53, B1, 4C, 1C, A1, 77, 7E, 54, 79, BC, 36, D0, AB, 96, F5, 1D, 98, 16, 8F, 88, C7, 92, 41, 68...
 
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Entropy:
7.9516

Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1.3 MB (1,325,056 bytes)

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

http://admin1.magnofiles.com/vXhN17s3YXB-BmIvBiSJvfVQ2Ss75ixk685IqTfaHtGp5WQczW0kCHR2g6arcRBCVzn-oWA7hf6PExxvzWUQWcXEz1nbS2-R2LopFRsa5WtFvz2Aq5kTSuGX33rHbAvmnXbFKnHqU5zd4GlupgLcGC6hTANZOXZrFCtxQwVmLVi7DjqBOA54u2cLLBsOi7PG

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