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 19 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from kyle.mxp2123.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
af948fe86ba863f7ea985ed5df097c83

SHA-1:
d49135f0e8530557e904707f5767d51991f40621

SHA-256:
23a75d86c3aa8c17d9242aee363334c8be75dd77b57cc17c5f5f4c3a0e66ddee

Scanner detections:
19 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
11/15/2024 9:04:00 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Strictor.61140
905

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Dropper.Gen
7.11.30.172

AVG
Win.Threat.High
2015.0.3383

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Strictor.61140
1.0.20.1130

Dr.Web
Trojan.DownLoader11.27075
9.0.1.0226

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Strictor.61140
8.14.08.14.02

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.J potentially unwanted application
8.7.0.302.0

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Strictor.61140
11.2014-14-08_5

G Data
Gen:Variant.Strictor.61140
14.8.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2014.10.28.7

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.DigiPlug
t3scan.1.7.5.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13043

McAfee
Socrydo
5600.7039

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Strictor.61140
15.0.0.678

Norman
Malware
11.20140814

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.08.14.02

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSL.M
14.8.14.1

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
32186

File size:
1.1 MB (1,102,840 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

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

Valid to:
5/26/2015 4:59:59 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:
8/13/2014 12:43:04 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:0GI8pQOB1+DVhjrc0nMUclkd/9C6EzI601CAqwzd5QoSR8u:zaOT+DVhnDjrCE608CGn

Entry address:
0x5D80

Entry point:
E8, 5F, 20, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, EC, 20, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 10, 20, 41, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 8B, 4D, 08, 5F, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0D, F6, 00, 10, 74, 08, 8B, 01, 8B, 40, FC, 8B, 40, 18, 89, 4D, F8, 89, 45, FC, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, B0, 10, 41, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 33, CD, E8, 30...
 
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Entropy:
7.7979  (probably packed)

Code size:
61.5 KB (62,976 bytes)

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

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