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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 okppdquqnst.9x3fxhy.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
3b1d0162f31360873ec2bfdb93e8db60

SHA-1:
26b73dd0044bae814eedb4c412ae3f0291bc9c3c

SHA-256:
210963e3b19fd61ed1c9f1aa64cdbaccb502fa58c1621fb502ef20aead27614a

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 an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
11/7/2024 1:35:10 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.3.29.12

File size:
703.3 KB (720,208 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:
9/23/2014 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:
11/19/2014 7:53:05 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:qtK5abEnZPeBXFgFu3fzQ33Q9Th7ayQmT66pxghBRgVl+FIkpKUj9wMVqqkoSW9g:qtKabmsBXFgofzIg9ThYuGrgVUF3pKUu

Entry address:
0xEB130

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 60, 44, 00, 8D, BE, 00, B0, FB, FF, 57, 89, E5, 8D, 9C, 24, 80, C1, FF, FF, 31, C0, 50, 39, DC, 75, FB, 46, 46, 53, 68, 7B, 98, 0E, 00, 57, 83, C3, 04, 53, 68, 2A, 51, 0A, 00, 56, 83, C3, 04, 53, 50, C7, 03, 03, 00, 02, 00, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 55, 57, 56, 53, 83, EC, 7C, 8B, 94, 24, 90, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 74, 00, 00, 00, 00, C6, 44, 24, 73, 00, 8B, AC, 24, 9C, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 42, 04, 89, 44, 24, 78, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 0F, B6, 4A, 02, 89, C3, D3, E3, 89, D9, 49, 89, 4C, 24, 6C, 0F, B6, 4A...
 
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Code size:
664 KB (679,936 bytes)

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

http://okppdquqnst.9x3fxhy.com/f7KUbzXeECiM-QVxVw8Ri4dwbfM90lZOe9HFd3sJQ5kaXuiZac2HwuNborHKvPKQODxhv4DgfJdgP2FOgUZquwEO5NxKa-9GAO9v8S9gQhEiRI5_YZfLuoHW9vjqOoLN

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