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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.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. The file has been seen being downloaded from 0pazhmfpxdg.j4xj3mfg.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
fc60ab8b75f0de3a6a6209326fadeac8

SHA-1:
08668523c6cd46d7e971235b95aea8f875f0a285

SHA-256:
18591b421bbc094c548ad2a85c38abdf8f73207a02514ce43679be433dba5f6a

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:
1/12/2025 2:38:53 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.6.4.13

File size:
829 KB (848,896 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.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/24/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/29/2015 1:59:59 AM

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:
1/16/2015 2:28:41 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:wDFhwFzsQNLAr5bj/b4FKHrJ841gAQguqMwPO:MFhwFzPBYb02y4SA5MP

Entry address:
0xD1F6

Entry point:
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Code size:
146.5 KB (150,016 bytes)

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

http://0pazhmfpxdg.j4xj3mfg.com/fzyLb9rXa87pSseh3JUpV-e4tiotUtfrNlthFf3lFCklrui_1V4byKSWs_yExbFn4c9Rt4UMtQCPubfNiqHWd2iVxyGAWRRe_GYHL3ka4IoC_1QrI0aVaPC14oGuZTgZrgSL-NFuC9QyuTXlxnOBVHVWZ9VAZSnpyoB8vS0gdz9CDkkZ2mRRCJDHDWD2Tq-ge0u6eHhZaKmF7KtEanTcBA

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