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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.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d47cacedb2cd3267913e9b06c7cb000c

SHA-1:
bacd3e81828a5e88ce218c4b901e080f7320ed2b

SHA-256:
f4fe65fcfbbd180a021dacc1b74f6c146d2ffa9d9f7c5f87ed8869c7e9eaca49

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:
11/2/2024 7:11:51 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.15.21

File size:
1.3 MB (1,385,024 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/25/2014 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/26/2015 7:59:59 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:
7/17/2014 9:22:07 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

Entry address:
0x6736

Entry point:
E8, 74, 43, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, B5, 13, 00, 00, FF, 35, B0, 2E, 47, 00, FF, 15, E4, 40, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 19, E8, 6B, 3B, 00, 00, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, 82, 48, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, 99, 48, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, D9, 48, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, A6, 13, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, C9, C3, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, C7, 45, FC, 44, 9D, 46, 00, E8, A8, 2F, 00, 00, 68, 4C, F7, 46, 00, 8D, 45, F0, 50, C7, 45, F0, 3C, 9D...
 
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Entropy:
7.5805

Code size:
74.5 KB (76,288 bytes)

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