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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. The file has been seen being downloaded from kyle.mxp2064.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
f714185241ab3a0eac11da4db7844331

SHA-1:
91491eaf6a4a7a90bcabe8cd038868bb7e07eb39

SHA-256:
fdc159880405e273c18291a7b6451b7fcb0550fd4cbc7737522c177727a873fd

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:
11/15/2024 12:36:20 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.8.1.11

File size:
1.2 MB (1,258,080 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/25/2014 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/26/2015 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Adeje, 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:
6B59702469CAA1B8F0FE3A86D94D6266

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/2/2014 4:49:49 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:nDHsykr7MhoKW/kGjjG7btB6lGogmMap/eP:nD9cDN/kqjG7paE

Entry address:
0x825C

Entry point:
E8, 66, 61, 00, 00, E9, 39, FE, FF, FF, E9, ED, 49, 00, 00, FF, 35, 80, B0, 43, 00, FF, 15, 28, 71, 42, 00, C3, FF, 35, 80, B0, 43, 00, FF, 15, 28, 71, 42, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 19, E8, C3, 58, 00, 00, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, 4F, 68, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, 66, 68, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 56, FF, 35, 80, B0, 43, 00, FF, 15, 28, 71, 42, 00, FF, 75, 08, 8B, F0, FF, 15, 24, 71, 42, 00, A3, 80, B0, 43, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C3, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, A3, 6A, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F...
 
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Entropy:
7.5881

Code size:
148.5 KB (152,064 bytes)

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

http://kyle.mxp2064.com/x3l9SYUwHC5KN30c8R6DMnJZk9Fbn0bI08QwDvzWKQBQzJY8zE41nuuA5ZyvkCInqCediQPT_T5p6aFH2qY7IVDUmx0jTg_WrF5fUBANe2KOizR5lXpFdo2yIZW0H9vQ

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