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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.magnoft.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
b0407f2b82dbca91f874a3cc0e2d1426

SHA-1:
1e4d27a1b4b0332d9be8a29e95f3d69c6cd399e4

SHA-256:
01a54bd9954c81b854467f69b9ed9ddd9443ded705d0f186a88437d130751784

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:
1/12/2025 12:37:02 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.8.2.1

File size:
1.2 MB (1,239,528 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:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
1/8/2015 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/9/2016 7:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, OU=606372162, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Guia de Isora, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
09630EF45908E3288578DD4139725FDD

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/23/2015 6:38:43 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:EDfYjzMGFC975ZsalP8G7RKxXB0xE36T27xomZK:ofQBFC9dGaJYd36T27xop

Entry address:
0x47A7E0

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 70, 75, 00, 8D, BE, 00, A0, CA, FF, 57, 89, E5, 8D, 9C, 24, 80, C1, FF, FF, 31, C0, 50, 39, DC, 75, FB, 46, 46, 53, 68, D0, 8D, 47, 00, 57, 83, C3, 04, 53, 68, D4, 37, 12, 00, 56, 83, C3, 04, 53, 50, C7, 03, 03, 00, 02, 00, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 55, 57, 56, 53, 83, EC, 7C, 8B, 94, 24, 90, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 74, 00, 00, 00, 00, C6, 44, 24, 73, 00, 8B, AC, 24, 9C, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 42, 04, 89, 44, 24, 78, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 0F, B6, 4A, 02, 89, C3, D3, E3, 89, D9, 49, 89, 4C, 24, 6C, 0F, B6, 4A...
 
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Entropy:
7.9864  (probably packed)

Code size:
1.1 MB (1,200,128 bytes)

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

http://admin.magnoft.com/MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEyMzQ1NhIv_Tz2wJULgc-nGlZY_B7F7UinctwLP7ZKmjFFCWaCg9I1zjnPO_h0PoZDoTLbp5hRSNZnU9lI5Hzeodf0JgbuWVwW2i14_uwfdD1GOwxCFHamN4QFiPcbHqdmDY1ijFgyy_g_SPjJF1ya6EZ5C1bLnSOzJnJVIHhHiA6U8bKnSoazYxbmVwuvJdsTGzDDUJQYI-qZb_fdOXKee_obrL6MOlCX_Cwfjzh0XZYC8gWTVYNb-2sA3U0YD4DnY5PaPu4DerOhREZjJ8uTVxIpLWO3Zsr9d_jzDhOUgDwzrtfUsJP6LXErgRW4X1TtL5_v-9GksgV7ESDX9muCWPm0Pa711igbxdBU7svgKudz9Y91muVitzAwflLeJAmDd2BDYQdMxY8QCn9yc0Tqvw8cs-07yXs2LN-UAR4eHOfm3344

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