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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. The file has been seen being downloaded from ttb.2swm6b0qbj.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
c7cb958b92aebfc83b4c6924842a83e5

SHA-1:
1c41bad8d099296dca7d4373bc16f3e15059af92

SHA-256:
98cb930080a15671db3c325e8ed7050b52a4bff4c372efc6af4c61918542a85b

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:
12/27/2024 6:37:01 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.6.18.13

File size:
1.3 MB (1,391,128 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Language:
English (United States)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/26/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/27/2015 12:59:59 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:
9/29/2014 6:36:43 PM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:SxP8/8Mle/jYpx1BNgldCjjhyYQCuA0VaBVSK3yg13J2uUme4ZDD+:SpILclE5yYQ/daqrKJ2Se4ZG

Entry address:
0x7D80

Entry point:
E8, C8, 41, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 3E, 27, 00, 00, FF, 35, 94, AE, 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, 44, 11, 47, 00, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, E8, 27, 30, 00, 00, 68, 5C, 76, 47, 00, 8D, 45, F0, C7, 45, F0, 3C, 11, 47, 00, 50, E8, 7C, 27, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.5723

Code size:
85.5 KB (87,552 bytes)

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

http://ttb.2swm6b0qbj.com/download/request/.../CJzxGx39?__tc=1412089448.999&lpsl=80aaf61d62e88e377d792fd959aa2baa&expire=1412175844&PubID=317535&tgu_src_lp_domain=www.dnldyoursoft.com&ClickID=36482242681412089443&fileName=Setup

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