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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:
555f8e181055598e80a333842a9cb0f3

SHA-1:
fc1679bc1d85446648a9aec93d93b64617e59818

SHA-256:
6c61073c02f0faf635760f6f6460ec548fb2daf93654638883b7a68b8a9966b6

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 12:18:39 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.2.14.3

File size:
580.1 KB (594,016 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:
7/10/2015 12:33:55 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:kPkZnNZwi3ZlYq/jVIO00rY/qMdb4GtcZy7HyLXz3v/Os3eSPclCR0:mKN+qlYKjVz00rYiMd8z3vmsuSPc0R0

Entry address:
0x1BF40B

Entry point:
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Packer / compiler:
ASPack v1.08.04

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,229,824 bytes)

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

http://admin.mymagnofile.com/DhGVNBhBIZBoQdL2LGPfEQvHhMKcp3EJc2TFQHLUgFx2CAKnZz2TJ2L01Y9VkZVl0u_WARyZOireViV3kbhLz-aG372SWL7M7WcrgfilAe2T3E0F9mnjY68uL3J69es0myEt8QjY32sMagIXmh2DIrpvQt-ybW1o6154mm9ugAKIvK9fWSrobHBigL_yqrYKn7u_6KYp-CFaI0O3sGpyz9JCbe3yuBStAf5-RkSAadabjmC0hRfkiddkE00QEW6wwoOlrfbKPRxmxtLVjIolAffmcD6MSkWHBsvPsUofimo-UKRsE1VqB0iVno7nL_OL7eo4bVMhBRqFai6k2ptxCgnsTw2L7EgcALyO0GVGdKEqqGNf_hzxFm0H-6XzWICuZJowfnO2ngTME8I0PsKigYwESL5SbAQqH6h1LNYgez4

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