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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.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
f013eeacce60b795966cae436332212c

SHA-1:
0e6bb07c06e8ce9aa135a49c2070a9b86828fb0e

SHA-256:
d0a49c7964dbc71b0b358e61578c77d9f257930de39978d583d8a200044f2f7b

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:
11/23/2024 1:13:47 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.14.4

File size:
508.4 KB (520,648 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
7/2/2014 3:47:28 PM

Valid to:
7/2/2015 3:47:28 PM

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 9:33:09 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)

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