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 setup.exe by Digital Plugin SL has been detected as adware by 28 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 v0hlavl.x81hbkjs85.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
ca93b115683a0f9b6070c12876592d1d

SHA-1:
14e7534b4fc9337acfa8ceee3983c764fa53633d

SHA-256:
b0071298b7b982c0f98e4e3813a9442756dd3b1cc90a835492fb3fa74f8406e2

Scanner detections:
28 / 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:
12/26/2024 4:22:50 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.A
788

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.SmartSecure
2014.10.07

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Softpulse.Gen8
7.11.177.0

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-AI [PUP]
2014.9-141208

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3338

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.A
1.0.20.1710

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Softpulse-51
0.98/21411

Dr.Web
Trojan.DownLoader11.34754
9.0.1.0342

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse (variant)
8.10521

F-Prot
W32/A-3dfc4001
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
11.2014-08-12_2

G Data
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
14.12.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2014.12.9.4

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.SoftPulse
t3scan.1.7.8.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13597

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SoftPulse
14.0.0.2825

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SoftPulse
v2014.12.08.11

McAfee
Softpulse.b
5600.6922

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.A
15.0.0.1026

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.Agent.dfslei
0.28.2.62483

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.12.08.11

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSL.F
14.9.27.13

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Total Defense
Win32/Tnega.JLTAcY
37.0.11212

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Adware.Softpulse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
33706

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.Agent.Win32.13583
2.0.0.1945

File size:
1.3 MB (1,386,512 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Language:
English

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/26/2014 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
5/27/2015 5:29:59 AM

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

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4DFD897866A8F5930B794CCCDAA3E5A1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/27/2014 2:49:31 PM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:Mq+qn68d/9eY7xekbbG6GgT0EzUm3O2AR1mYpxkhn8OTYgpqomoFufWUxJkS9sQh:Mq7669wmb7T0ELmmYs7tA

Entry address:
0x7DE0

Entry point:
E8, C8, 41, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 3E, 27, 00, 00, FF, 35, 94, 9E, 47, 00, FF, 15, A4, 70, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, 0A, 49, 00, 00, 59, 59, E9, 22, 49, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 62, 49, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 11, FF, 75, 08, E8, C0, 2C, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, 8B, E5, 5D, C3, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, C7, 45, FC, 70, 00, 47, 00, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, E8, 27, 30, 00, 00, 68, 8C, 65, 47, 00, 8D, 45, F0, C7, 45, F0, 68, 00, 47, 00, 50, E8, 7C, 27, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.5697

Code size:
85.5 KB (87,552 bytes)

The file setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

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