player_setup.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_setup.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 www.lpmxp23.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
ffed512ca85774af24f420b56ba2c933

SHA-1:
706dd4dd9d00d7d598882eff29903c7e7bfade85

SHA-256:
e7f3ec0b8b627d2f7a84ac24061628ce052c7b6977cd47ab7c5a79d18600ce0a

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 4:06:45 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.2.27.20

File size:
812.5 KB (832,016 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/22/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/23/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, STREET=Calle el Pozo 17B, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, PostalCode=38670, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00C30222BF83B5AE2CB666E51380D11646

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/3/2014 10:09:31 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:QHAVdbgYZFkLri0InZF1o2Bd9aFtry9rK1u3sPDaYskpR3r2:QH1AFx0Ild9aFtrmrKgY7r2

Entry address:
0x4E119

Entry point:
E8, EA, 7A, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 14, 57, 33, FF, 3B, F7, 75, 04, 33, C0, EB, 65, 39, 7D, 08, 75, 1B, E8, D2, 37, 00, 00, 6A, 16, 5E, 89, 30, 57, 57, 57, 57, 57, E8, CD, 0C, 00, 00, 83, C4, 14, 8B, C6, EB, 45, 39, 7D, 10, 74, 16, 39, 75, 0C, 72, 11, 56, FF, 75, 10, FF, 75, 08, E8, 23, 14, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, EB, C1, FF, 75, 0C, 57, FF, 75, 08, E8, A2, 0A, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, 39, 7D, 10, 74, B6, 39, 75, 0C, 73, 0E, E8, 83, 37, 00, 00, 6A, 22, 59, 89, 08, 8B, F1, EB, AD...
 
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Entropy:
6.3165

Code size:
464.5 KB (475,648 bytes)

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

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