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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:
8957826b861a2def7add87b004c196d7

SHA-1:
1e4815b90affc5ef959b4a18f787616316064b99

SHA-256:
a44a5c3b5f323cb406b0f7c4bee51090968e7ed0f62e33772e7fbc3496d7baf8

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:
12/24/2024 1:28:49 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.15.21

File size:
537.5 KB (550,360 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 7:17:28 PM

Valid to:
7/2/2015 7:17:28 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:
5/19/2015 2:15:51 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 14, AD, 59, 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, C3, 16, 69, C4, 2B, 0C, FD, 10, 21, B8, BE, BF, 26, C7, 95, 89, 78, 6C, A7, 23, 8F, 5B, 52, 93, B6, 09, 50, 3B, 77, 79, 6E, F2, 3C, 7A, 5C, AE, 5A, E6, 70, 5D, 19, 90, DE, 77, 60, 32, 8C, 94, D5, 38, 27, C0, 43, FE, DF, CD, 89, 92, 96, 91, E1, B1, 14, 95, 1E, 0D, B0, ED, 06, AC, A6, 86, 5D, CF, 8D, 08, E2, A0, 1A, F7, 48, D2, 90, 1E, D8, F6, CB, 54, 16, 9F, 66, C8, A7...
 
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Entropy:
7.9376

Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1 MB (1,076,736 bytes)

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