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. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
2ccc14628854fd6e6199fd5a2585f503

SHA-1:
2627b7cd42e58b5ec9a92627d7322648a4b0ceb1

SHA-256:
8beed207d4cdae9f00df3435e466f427424046f6c925436e13d91461b6a6ec97

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 7:16:07 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.13.23

File size:
482.9 KB (494,464 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}\player setup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
7/2/2014 10:47:28 AM

Valid to:
7/2/2015 10:47:28 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=GUIA DE ISORA, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
08030F4F595ED0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
2/23/2015 11:21:27 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 94, D8, 58, 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, ED, EC, 7D, 32, CE, E8, B7, CC, A8, D5, 00, D6, CD, A2, BF, 2C, 65, 45, 72, 83, 44, A3, AA, 40, 9F, 72, FC, C8, 29, 21, 07, D7, 1C, 98, B1, 14, B5, BD, E9, CD, F0, 5F, E7, F7, 3B, 60, FD, E1, 1A, 85, 66, D4, C5, C5, 62, 0D, E3, 18, 15, AA, 6D, 6D, 6C, 78, 80, DB, 55, B7, 83, 72, 7E, 47, DF, D5, 8C, C3, CF, 3B, E0, CF, 6A, 33, 7A, C1, D2, 66, 5A, EC, C5, E4, 86, E3, 74...
 
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Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
965.5 KB (988,672 bytes)

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