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Digital Plugin S.l.

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 S.l 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 ttb.lpmxp2138.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin S.l.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
ac2bd3e5822ca30931debbb5fe6ae8db

SHA-1:
1b74573d8ab4608c7482f73da140ee038ac5f6fd

SHA-256:
8893402741ea4937000260902cd4481dc54b5a032723ee66a4013bcd5122fda0

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 an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
11/25/2024 10:35:44 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.7.19.9

File size:
1.4 MB (1,465,072 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 S.l.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/14/2014 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/15/2015 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin S.l., O=Digital Plugin S.l., 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:
229111B20CCF13394E8E6CA9EAB4121F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/27/2014 11:23:12 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:4y83rXf95JRrVwk52X8DL2ZaVVk7FcAm6ycERLdDzUbBtEpZvj0j5a:4y8hFykeu2ZykaAJyrRZYBtEF

Entry address:
0x69E4

Entry point:
E8, 27, 41, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 3B, 0D, F0, E0, 47, 00, 75, 02, F3, C3, E9, 25, 48, 00, 00, CC, CC, CC, 57, 56, 8B, 74, 24, 10, 8B, 4C, 24, 14, 8B, 7C, 24, 0C, 8B, C1, 8B, D1, 03, C6, 3B, FE, 76, 08, 3B, F8, 0F, 82, 68, 03, 00, 00, 0F, BA, 25, 74, FF, 47, 00, 01, 73, 07, F3, A4, E9, 17, 03, 00, 00, 81, F9, 80, 00, 00, 00, 0F, 82, CE, 01, 00, 00, 8B, C7, 33, C6, A9, 0F, 00, 00, 00, 75, 0E, 0F, BA, 25, F8, E0, 47, 00, 01, 0F, 82, DA, 04, 00, 00, 0F, BA, 25, 74, FF, 47, 00, 00, 0F, 83, A7, 01, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.5976

Code size:
76.5 KB (78,336 bytes)

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

http://ttb.lpmxp2138.com/download/request/.../xb9onqTr?__tc=1409336749.529&lpsl=a2ce0e281dcd2b7efa92f3f5a6e3620c&expire=1409423152&tgu_src_lp_domain=www.dwldultimatesoftupdate.com&ClickID=31575277251409336751&PubID=125713&fileName=Setup

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