player setup.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 player setup.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 file has been seen being downloaded from admin.n53bv2g.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
48a5d4da53c169a998491bc02ee3604a

SHA-1:
0c91f301868bbe42ce9ad74b2b2102874b524af5

SHA-256:
59bf2b9e951bee998908603b61797ed28a79a2de265eb4828e771b3fc779ee31

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:
11/23/2024 1:02:20 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.2.19.2

File size:
550 KB (563,152 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
11/28/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/29/2015 12:59:59 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:
7EF73837EA5E124265D3506763013A48

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/26/2015 2:49:32 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x1E3F00

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 60, 56, 00, 8D, BE, 00, B0, E9, FF, 57, 89, E5, 8D, 9C, 24, 80, C1, FF, FF, 31, C0, 50, 39, DC, 75, FB, 46, 46, 53, 68, 29, 15, 1E, 00, 57, 83, C3, 04, 53, 68, FA, DE, 07, 00, 56, 83, C3, 04, 53, 50, C7, 03, 03, 00, 02, 00, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 55, 57, 56, 53, 83, EC, 7C, 8B, 94, 24, 90, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 74, 00, 00, 00, 00, C6, 44, 24, 73, 00, 8B, AC, 24, 9C, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 42, 04, 89, 44, 24, 78, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 0F, B6, 4A, 02, 89, C3, D3, E3, 89, D9, 49, 89, 4C, 24, 6C, 0F, B6, 4A...
 
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Code size:
508 KB (520,192 bytes)

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

http://admin.n53bv2g.com/mFbXZ94wGMTM3czv4MON4kLWOKzuHaqkLsKvNDnnUwRarmr0TA4WB7rJAi0Rsii_oFW7q0Wn85KHyJX2SZby5AJro32Y2O5tGoxXlvtPB-nRqlDGm_sx4SswzThm73yi1zEqZwctQVbPaSViJ5lBtncZNFnLvukEmA5gelXUc8-ASycGjWeA4Y25fMz3Q3bx299mtp3OB6z9yx-rx9ri5pZWnIBo8ZuhryikDC_S4G0

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