home

setup.exe

taskhost

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 13 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. This program installs potentially unwanted software on your PC at the same time as the software you are trying to install, without adequate consent. The file has been seen being downloaded from ttb.i49yobh3s.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Product:
taskhost

Version:
7. 6. 4. 6

MD5:
fe6f75cf498ff02fe5662ac7598745ab

SHA-1:
09e48d7c5cc967be9416e081ca6299097dba32df

SHA-256:
bd593d407eeee27df8af984a482722185b4ee9dc92eb7b3063ec1c7d9635b759

Scanner detections:
13 / 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:
1/12/2025 10:46:39 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
491

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-DC [Adw]
2014.9-151002

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Softpulse-83
0.98/20008

Dr.Web
Trojan.Domaiq.102
9.0.1.0275

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
8.15.10.02.08

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.U potentially unwanted application
9.7.0.302.0

F-Secure
Riskware.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
11.2015-02-10_6

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of player setup(1).exe.downloading
2015.10.2.8

McAfee
Program.SoftPulse
5600.6625

Norman
Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.494185
11.20151002

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
15.8.17.15

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
35418

File size:
689.6 KB (706,160 bytes)

Product version:
7. 6. 5. 4

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014

Original file name:
taskhost.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Language:
Spanish (Spain, International Sort)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/23/2014 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/28/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Guia de Isora, 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:
457A2C44F936DD8EEF974AFC80E53578

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/12/2015 5:53:28 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:rMGU99p82TL5WXv0Be53AXTNMwmTfumY+7rP8db1+Q/WCjVF6WjXKS:Az99pU0Be5wXTNMwmT0+7wf9WcVdXK

Entry address:
0xDBE6

Entry point:
E8, 9D, 81, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, F5, 26, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 64, 83, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, 7F, 36, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, C9, C3, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, C7, 45, FC, 64, AC, 42, 00, E8, DE, 2F, 00, 00, 68, F4, 35, 43, 00, 8D, 45, F0, 50, C7, 45, F0, 5C, AC, 42, 00, E8, DE, 27, 00, 00, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 44, 24, 0C, 53, 85, C0, 74, 52, 8B, 54, 24, 08, 33, DB, 8A, 5C, 24, 0C, F7, C2, 03...
 
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Entropy:
7.6641

Code size:
149.5 KB (153,088 bytes)

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

http://ttb.i49yobh3s.com/download/request/.../d5qwh19c?__tc=1421143584.643&lpsl=5845abc95338595cea6e2bc0e7345263&expire=1421229976&PubID=382473&slp=www.completeprolist.com&ClickID=nym1COyY5t6t5YrwBRACGOiVvMSptq_QeCINMjQuOTYuMjA2LjExNSgBMPXb06UF&fileName=Setup

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