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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. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from admin.jmagno.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
eaac4add8cae6752dff8c42fa18cf7bf

SHA-1:
1875425d7b0a08a4d71f39297e6d1f27eef4304b

SHA-256:
791ae9a8e3f882bb31d6ac94610fb621f7af48b259aa8e72f5fff14e51258fa4

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:
11/12/2024 7:43:35 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.3.23.23

File size:
518.9 KB (531,304 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/25/2014 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/26/2015 8:59:59 PM

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

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

Serial number:
63B78976E4F16AA4AC250388162DD349

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/9/2015 12:53:19 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:b94hz08xqd0h7WgX3NaT9CP7acQXvQdgkyKL/IzGbUt577y:pWxq+hN3Nhdg/yqA

Entry address:
0x1AA3CB

Entry point:
60, E8, 00, 00, 00, 00, 58, 05, 5A, 0B, 00, 00, 8B, 30, 03, F0, 2B, C0, 8B, FE, 66, AD, C1, E0, 0C, 8B, C8, 50, AD, 2B, C8, 03, F1, 8B, C8, 57, 51, 49, 8A, 44, 39, 06, 88, 04, 31, 75, F6, 2B, C0, AC, 8B, C8, 80, E1, F0, 24, 0F, C1, E1, 0C, 8A, E8, AC, 0B, C8, 51, 02, CD, BD, 00, FD, FF, FF, D3, E5, 59, 58, 8B, DC, 8D, A4, 6C, 90, F1, FF, FF, 51, 2B, C9, 51, 51, 8B, CC, 51, 66, 8B, 17, C1, E2, 0C, 52, 57, 83, C1, 04, 51, 50, 83, C1, 04, 56, 51, E8, 5E, 00, 00, 00, 8B, E3, 5E, 5A, 2B, C0, 89, 04, 32, B4, 10...
 
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Packer / compiler:
ASPack v1.08.04

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,216,000 bytes)

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

http://admin.jmagno.com/Oa91mPUZ1zEFG0HJwcLiCCFmAJA25TzoDZFeMfoK8kcxYQN_QdRioQwprzAFW1uGIJtCBtMHVrawrRLlsPP9LRJgmHc98-nzvyZih0cSOEsn_EsbIU4R5ggdw26tDY2aY_P6aG2RBR47Gt3phuCjMsusdYD3b2eEyRST7qLzCLC5LIYjBlrw8my8BfUCLCv5apxb9-wnhkc3AAX0LxqUnaibRH1dlcFuoiCS385ZzIbl79Ir9q-0OhtNnY7KmJ8ReWoO57KdOd3Okblh91aEiBC8E1i47G2oyi7ODmWQYOxzdzWTB33Y4pNKehVH4x-LTRsq8WtkHj4PFKIedIh38OXg04C1OCq4e78VcPmA2bFsURYUsjHySNt16COtlX3nmNxUXnHgb95mFinPOIppZFTCaU9IUoCZr1w8ilMfzF0

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