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 ttb.obvj0w71hq.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a773cc52d50587a8a1b85deea0a8e2ba

SHA-1:
a2c3f915048c5353b71e3e8c7d14878899ff0dd9

SHA-256:
ea18d55bcedf4a83a8cb517e1225f9492ddc695ca43fa7c2e23aee8b28106059

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 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:
11/7/2024 10:41:30 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.5.24.16

File size:
1.5 MB (1,523,160 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:
9/23/2014 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/28/2015 8:59:59 PM

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:
457A2C44F936DD8EEF974AFC80E53578

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/15/2014 12:33:57 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:6pa/O74CNt3r2J2FC3eUldZUJ3OlKU4UDcc6Cy+9eG2:3cZC35VcOcmDcc6CdY

Entry address:
0x7F26

Entry point:
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Code size:
81 KB (82,944 bytes)

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

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