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Digital Plugin S.l.

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 installation.exe by Digital Plugin S.l 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. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from 4aliloefj.7wdkxo5y.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin S.l.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
5612e9dc1ef1563f5363dd13ca2cc47a

SHA-1:
a061bcd2dd563ffd7e0da97fccd1a457e52e4313

SHA-256:
7e25dccbee5ad7d3f911be4f12c635d7a36168f76df39f15e4c998166f2736e3

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 12:22:41 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.12.19

File size:
1.9 MB (2,024,168 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\installation.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin S.l.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/20/2014 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/21/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin S.l., O=Digital Plugin S.l., 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:
56A14602FE05DCEF0C5161F45F3065B5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/8/2015 9:08:05 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0xD3A20

Entry point:
8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, E8, 56, B8, 01, 00, E8, 11, 00, 00, 00, 5D, C3, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 6A, FE, 68, 20, A0, 57, 00, 68, D0, 42, 4E, 00, 64, A1, 00, 00, 00, 00, 50, 83, C4, 94, 53, 56, 57, A1, 9C, 08, 58, 00, 31, 45, F8, 33, C5, 50, 8D, 45, F0, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, 89, 65, E8, C7, 45, 90, 00, 00, 00, 00, C7, 45, FC, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 45, A0, 50, FF, 15, 28, 91, 52, 00, C7, 45, FC, FE, FF, FF, FF, EB, 26, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, C3, 8B, 65, E8, C7...
 
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Code size:
1.2 MB (1,210,368 bytes)

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

http://4aliloefj.7wdkxo5y.com/lRN-bCidKrnR0pn3NOqDMqhEKrv7mT5duByVhQGI6Puf3IqnB7ikZK4UrfhlyLOH2tWNOiAKhLZ0SaMgcI5OXhsanvNJP69BqFUgd18fF0a5tHHClg6fYxv1vab016wVl1GmN3j1GxVqXo_kdPHnfGmtza8E0h9qPoOXFU1ieaRAcoBnQLMMnta8O3fucvc-9NH039E0daqgpKdhQKN5Dg

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