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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 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 az852137.vo.msecnd.net.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
1755314a6f0310ecb2b2fc4d5c23d85a

SHA-1:
0026395c159ba80890f50b12a04cfc5174ca8f83

SHA-256:
2305dd3becccb90adcd50b25c4d08d9b068e8e100c2f8652f45b951b359b38c5

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:
1/14/2025 11:14:06 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.8.2.15

File size:
633.9 KB (649,160 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
8/7/2015 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/6/2016 1:59:59 AM

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

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
64D481E288350B6CBBECF091BAFA549F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/12/2016 6:10:16 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:18xhXy81K7lR3UpRWNc5gcancj5Unb2PBPuzGEq7s9fPqFRhYfK8ch0WzYimVS6i:kh/K3EX/56cj5u25uzhq7sBqFRsDWzYo

Entry address:
0x1A5840

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 20, 51, 00, 8D, BE, 00, F0, EE, FF, 57, EB, 0B, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
7.8829

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
592 KB (606,208 bytes)

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

http://az852137.vo.msecnd.net/MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEyMzQ1NiProOU3b-W_o5LbfvwT8lzK1G_ZGDxEer9P-8T5JMOUMspwjzlhFo3IYuPQcqvDKkX7_-9nD4AeqR2D9fh4iFIxO2aN0W7GkRYrcG6Hu14s99bATTs1XXa7xvycAb6fjAdR49JBWDPNjVHh1FtYsO33SdewAngBvckPkbqnr3M9Dl00iazDSNeJw0fa-9KuehDDI5jvKd6DH8UFl5umEZ_kBbqX9wuKs6_Rli2PXPE6BH4bSzcJE87W62RHVKk3X1V2AP56_-6X4Tds6QQHO0uP-sX7atVMp2W6Oieh3SjQuGig4ycPUSDrwqqCLxkVsTw_IbEGmaA_3gTnPpo0yZ_nGyDSjJ49ox7wmFBHIrRgg2OoNbjSlxNx0sVFTTrBf7qvZwBcLJlfZRAKQZumtAsBLW8vpIxkoMqIHGVh651DYVXv0r1_vvBumtHSn2awXRdKFANvuk0TUfMBVkzSPAE=

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