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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.h5owfhpi.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
1b2cb9a4ee8f4d0b630795306289c996

SHA-1:
25253f4e1c3383d1a5aea9907acf1d79a09dbfcd

SHA-256:
101b7a103f5ee0631d3947492b76d7f9940b29b1009ca84e8682bfeb2c3c50eb

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:
11/27/2024 2:12:24 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.7.24.23

File size:
733 KB (750,544 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:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/23/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/28/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, 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:
457A2C44F936DD8EEF974AFC80E53578

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/12/2014 6:56:11 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:UcMyQoD5NINrppaVha2gyaG7/wlMk2EXIDe43Gc67VYNQ3sVT8oSp:UcI5qVhSPG7/wlZ2IQWcsVYa

Entry address:
0xF4620

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 80, 44, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 90, FB, FF, 57, 89, E5, 8D, 9C, 24, 80, C1, FF, FF, 31, C0, 50, 39, DC, 75, FB, 46, 46, 53, 68, 7B, 28, 0F, 00, 57, 83, C3, 04, 53, 68, 13, C6, 0A, 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:
7.9651  (probably packed)

Code size:
696 KB (712,704 bytes)

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

http://ttb.h5owfhpi.com/download/request/.../CJzxGx39?__tc=1415858175.716&lpsl=e8e98485aa66e60877fdb18da09e118f&expire=1415944573&PubID=271585&slp=www.listsofttotal.com&ClickID=ubd9fb0bd514627808eca6d245e&fileName=Setup

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