player.exe

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.8qu23hfj.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
4afb33c08e21caeb6505c7a15413e413

SHA-1:
e0b86b0195fce93bf3bd7594b4109e32a6973395

SHA-256:
223ea20c154f248b927ff28cb80b2c4d366a69d939b043bbf38d27c6fdf26ed0

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:
11/23/2024 12:46:56 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.12.18

File size:
508.5 KB (520,672 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
7/2/2014 10:47:28 AM

Valid to:
7/2/2015 10:47:28 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=GUIA DE ISORA, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
08030F4F595ED0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/30/2015 6:33:09 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 6C, 8D, 5E, 00, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 89, 08, 50, 45, 43, 6F, 6D, 70, 61, 63, 74, 32, 00, 12, 37, BC, 49, 8C, DA, A1, A7, E3, 73, F0, FE, FA, A1, 84, B1, 88, 95, F5, 7E, 73, F7, 63, 72, BB, 9D, 51, 94, 85, 85, E5, B2, C0, B9, D8, 7B, 77, 5E, 9D, D3, A8, DA, F3, 3A, 91, F3, 68, 8F, A3, EC, C5, 04, E3, C2, BC, 30, A0, ED, 44, C0, A4, FF, B2, 0E, 3A, 7C, 20, C6, 0C, 89, 6A, 98, 8E, DB, 43, 78, 32, 01, 3C, 68, 23, 79, F2, BA, 6C, A2, 6A, 03, 50, 9D, 0A, D3, 82...
 
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Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,237,504 bytes)

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

http://ttb.8qu23hfj.com/download/request/.../4vEoIKcf?__tc=1423019644.849&lpsl=7019686d673e538e3d1af9bf2e604108&expire=1423106034&slp=www.getfilersoft.com&pub_id=P11875042&ce_cid=TrV7NHknAVny0Cjx77gl4jFfQ7-Z9D7kSPS668lXGSqUVtnK0TJeI6arTqymwKC2XZH0ekZZRQRXerVvHJzllUv26WAltYCunUxyNAKzqhgZ02E2EeO-cDTM_zcrM0kLdNZlnEYIb4gHV3l2j1TwTKbw9OmrY7iPCjOYvsXEXEH1gYEAhtPxG_NpGWiiQwpwJ8s1p5dtyn6p_U-09i6pAG5FzuNVIvrVu6pBra0L2LVClsZ9sdCjEnkUZ6aQfo7SszMu0rsy7DT_p0gLojCYHcomkwq6KLrdS4qhnAiMWjgHB5l5q1KtATzBf6tlb878qw7xcsmO9WFu6zLDxumT13jf0hLcHs4ugWKHLPyqRMTdtPsju0YvGupbrCD_x-VqLIU0wve2_pceM2Quw44hFJyE6KytyJsCqqYV5MuM-7TnjhgC-Tx4Eg2R_OCFQw&fileName=Player

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