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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 player setup.exe by Digital Plugin SL has been detected as adware by 27 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
26d43c94a8d93a6fc7ec1cd39aec2673

SHA-1:
319def2e22450bdfe22e9293ed5ebfb6888d7aa9

SHA-256:
26a69fac723e441c6e00d75bbad32f7bddcf89891450bd5351f3175651c15ebb

Scanner detections:
27 / 68

Status:
Adware

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
11/8/2024 6:03:34 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Trojan.Generic.11816518
860

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.SmartSecure
2014.09.28

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Softpulse.Gen8
7.11.174.250

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-AH [PUP]
2014.9-140927

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3338

Bitdefender
Trojan.Generic.11816518
1.0.20.1350

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Softpulse-46
0.98/19443

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Trojan.Generic.11816518
8.14.09.27.03

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.K potentially unwanted application
8.7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/Buzus.TVJF!tr
9/27/2014

F-Secure
Trojan.Generic.11816518
11.2014-27-09_7

G Data
Trojan.Generic.11816518
14.9.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of player setup.exe (Adware)
2014.12.9.5

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.183.13504

Kaspersky
Trojan.Win32.Buzus
14.0.0.3187

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SoftPulse
v2014.09.27.03

McAfee
SoftPulse
5600.6994

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.185.1297.0

MicroWorld eScan
Trojan.Generic.11816518
15.0.0.810

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.SoftPulse.dflmyv
0.28.2.62286

nProtect
Trojan.Generic.11816518
14.09.26.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.09.27.03

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSL.R
14.9.27.14

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Adware.Softpulse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
32938

File size:
1.3 MB (1,367,064 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\player setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/26/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/27/2015 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4DFD897866A8F5930B794CCCDAA3E5A1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/23/2014 2:52:03 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:zGjJZtAXaMb5YpCCNAfGU64giomYhXlZwVBhVS+JbIHICWKotTn+:zGNZpbmfLRgioDXz+BhA3SvVn

Entry address:
0x6D2E

Entry point:
E8, 26, 40, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 3C, 02, 00, 00, FF, 35, 78, 4C, 46, 00, FF, 15, 6C, 50, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 19, E8, 1D, 38, 00, 00, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, C6, 46, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, DD, 46, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 56, FF, 75, 08, 8B, F1, E8, 5F, 47, 00, 00, C7, 06, 30, B7, 45, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, C7, 01, 30, B7, 45, 00, E9, 6A, 47, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 24, 48, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, 07, 02, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74...
 
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Code size:
78.5 KB (80,384 bytes)

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