player setup.exe

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 player setup.exe by Digital Plugin S.l has been detected as adware by 30 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. This program installs potentially unwanted software on your PC at the same time as the software you are trying to install, without adequate consent.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin S.l.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
4885240d91f57c29de8f7b66d7dcec0f

SHA-1:
5518429b86b588f5f13730da0884c83a4a87ed4d

SHA-256:
1f810b0c22a78a3167086b531fae125e468115060aaa74b534acd6767ebb28c3

Scanner detections:
30 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
11/25/2024 9:44:05 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.DomaIQ.T
874

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Win-Trojan/Inject.1526984
2014.09.14

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Softpulse.Gen8
7.11.170.250

avast!
Win32:GenMalicious-NP [PUP]
2014.9-140913

AVG
Found Win32/DH{gRJ UIEHeVRPFVGBFYEJHFOBE0GBDw}
2015.0.3352

Baidu Antivirus
Hacktool.Win32.Downloader
4.0.3.14913

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.DomaIQ.T
1.0.20.1280

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.SoftPulse.GEE
19506

Dr.Web
Trojan.DownLoader11.30734
9.0.1.0256

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Application.Bundler.DomaIQ.T
14.09.13

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse (variant)
8.10373

F-Prot
W32/A-2afff828
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Application.Bundler.DomaIQ
11.2014-13-09_7

G Data
Win32.Application.Softpulse
14.9.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2014.11.9.22

IKARUS anti.virus
not-a-virus:AdWare.Agent
t3scan.1.7.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13286

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SoftPulse
14.0.0.3257

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.DomaIQ
v2014.09.13.03

McAfee
SoftPulse
5600.7008

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.DomaIQ.T
15.0.0.768

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.SoftPulse.deniau
0.28.2.61942

Norman
Malware
11.20140913

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.09.13.03

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSl.M
14.9.13.14

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Adware.Softpulse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
32210

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.Agent.Win32.12175
2.0.0.1921

File size:
1.5 MB (1,527,032 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/13/2014 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/14/2015 8:59:59 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:
229111B20CCF13394E8E6CA9EAB4121F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/4/2014 4:32:09 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:G5IM/V0deM5lZ2ykPYMkrQ1OrWaRyv2PBcSL+L5/+FMoQl/ugQWiBdrfO+a+n:8IBfvMkrNrf0u3qdaNLgQWiO+H

Entry address:
0x5A07

Entry point:
E8, 41, 2A, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 74, 24, 8A, 01, 83, C1, 01, 84, C0, 74, 4E, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 75, EF, 05, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 01, BA, FF, FE, FE, 7E, 03, D0, 83, F0, FF, 33, C2, 83, C1, 04, A9, 00, 01, 01, 81, 74, E8, 8B, 41, FC, 84, C0, 74, 32, 84, E4, 74, 24, A9, 00, 00, FF, 00, 74, 13, A9, 00, 00, 00, FF, 74, 02, EB, CD, 8D, 41, FF, 8B...
 
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Code size:
60 KB (61,440 bytes)

The file player setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

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