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 iplyldmer.0roptbgg23.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
0edcf243d6b2171f8aa3fc5b6d42486c

SHA-1:
52402c9460d1d71336dafec36a24e37d3eb45c83

SHA-256:
8d63ac801987714fcbc1bd04d468fdbd79be56880861ff157cd0397bb281acd1

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 '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 3:12:52 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.1.29.20

File size:
1.3 MB (1,410,512 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Language:
English

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/26/2014 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
5/27/2015 5:29:59 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:
9/30/2014 4:07:12 PM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:F8maeLsj74Tl3ZvYbIwhtdAP/zy1ilLShKOWBGF7UYCtftv29Xf:F8CJeMwhtO/zk0K8f/He

Entry address:
0x7DB0

Entry point:
E8, C8, 41, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 3E, 27, 00, 00, FF, 35, 94, FE, 47, 00, FF, 15, A4, 70, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, 0A, 49, 00, 00, 59, 59, E9, 22, 49, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 62, 49, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 11, FF, 75, 08, E8, C0, 2C, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, 8B, E5, 5D, C3, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, C7, 45, FC, 08, 5E, 47, 00, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, E8, 27, 30, 00, 00, 68, 1C, C3, 47, 00, 8D, 45, F0, C7, 45, F0, 00, 5E, 47, 00, 50, E8, 7C, 27, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.5588

Code size:
85.5 KB (87,552 bytes)

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

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