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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 ttb.4ujp9z3tib.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
36e308e4ad4525f277aaeec950b89025

SHA-1:
dde2087e5ee1d24a342f709a9c9f7b2bd42e9c88

SHA-256:
f5185e9e78cb4ff5451bf25f26b556a8ac0293447f5f37c4efa606e918795dc0

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:
12/27/2024 6:36:57 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.8.5.19

File size:
1.3 MB (1,410,592 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014

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:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/26/2014 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/27/2015 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4DFD897866A8F5930B794CCCDAA3E5A1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/30/2014 1:37:12 PM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:A8maeLsj74Tl3ZvYbIwhtdAP/zy1ilLShKOWBGF7UYCtftv29Xf/:A8CJeMwhtO/zk0K8f/Hen

Entry address:
0x7DB0

Entry point:
E8, C8, 41, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 3E, 27, 00, 00, FF, 35, 94, FE, 47, 00, FF, 15, A4, 70, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, 0A, 49, 00, 00, 59, 59, E9, 22, 49, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 62, 49, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 11, FF, 75, 08, E8, C0, 2C, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, 8B, E5, 5D, C3, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, C7, 45, FC, 08, 5E, 47, 00, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, E8, 27, 30, 00, 00, 68, 1C, C3, 47, 00, 8D, 45, F0, C7, 45, F0, 00, 5E, 47, 00, 50, E8, 7C, 27, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.5587

Code size:
85.5 KB (87,552 bytes)

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

http://ttb.4ujp9z3tib.com/download/request/.../L7vN2HPR?__tc=1412102556.813&lpsl=88797c13031b93b20cf574e6a7f41037&expire=1412188947&tgu_src_lp_domain=www.dwnlultimatesoft.com&pub_id=582531&ce_cid=20t9Xf2uiXpKIrTC3c1.Yr1xz2nw000.&fileName=Player

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