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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 c2aalf3buv.t1xbzi7ojt.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
4a23f78d318d02642e46dfce5f8d3233

SHA-1:
24d45578e0eda540eb62e8c8dcbadc884b3e9a95

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:
12/26/2024 2:36:00 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.Bundler.Installer.Meta (M)
16.5.3.0

File size:
1.3 MB (1,386,520 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)

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/25/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/26/2015 6:59:59 PM

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:
9/27/2014 4:19:31 AM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:8q+qn68d/9eY7xekbbG6GgT0EzUm3O2AR1mYpxkhn8OTYgpqomoFufWUxJkS9sQg:8q7669wmb7T0ELmmYs7tJ

Entry address:
0x7DE0

Entry point:
E8, C8, 41, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 3E, 27, 00, 00, FF, 35, 94, 9E, 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, 70, 00, 47, 00, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, E8, 27, 30, 00, 00, 68, 8C, 65, 47, 00, 8D, 45, F0, C7, 45, F0, 68, 00, 47, 00, 50, E8, 7C, 27, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.5697

Code size:
85.5 KB (87,552 bytes)

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

http://c2aalf3buv.t1xbzi7ojt.com/HC8VjmuCxlUHpAoTcSBORZhleUAPMpQuDjaq8FcRDVCAyAgKrQKYWTi5HjwvzUJCdmg58SudLGGwLf_m8aa4pJVu7SxV-x4eda7jANT1GHStNZ7T9liGqcfklouyyDJD?sbb=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