setup.exe

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 30 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. This program installs potentially unwanted software on your PC at the same time as the software you are trying to install, without adequate consent. The file has been seen being downloaded from kyle.mxp2398.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
a8f583e9b24f2fd2a2468ea553c66c7e

SHA-1:
32680f2ff88379f2d1bd4018212525e039857782

SHA-256:
4655271f71c7344ffd290d221316ec4cca7c9ae55da45921c205b3502924fce9

Scanner detections:
30 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
11/25/2024 9:46:37 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.2
787

AegisLab AV Signature
AdWare.W32.Agent
2.1.4+

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Win-PUP/SoftPulse
2014.10.20

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Softpulse.Gen8
7.11.179.162

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-AH [PUP]
2014.9-140928

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3337

Baidu Antivirus
PUA.Win32.SoftPulse
4.0.3.14129

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.2
1.0.20.1715

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Softpulse-8
0.98/21411

Dr.Web
Trojan.DownLoader11.34565
9.0.1.0271

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse (variant)
8.10587

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/Buzus.UUTA!tr
12/9/2014

F-Prot
W32/A-9a61795c
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2014-09-12_3

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
14.9.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2014.12.9.22

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.SoftPulse
t3scan.1.7.8.0

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.184.13727

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SoftPulse
14.0.0.3182

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.DomaIQ
v2014.09.28.01

McAfee
Softpulse.a
5600.6993

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.2
15.0.0.1029

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.SoftPulse.dfwrxn
0.28.2.62671

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.09.28.01

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSL.F
14.9.28.12

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
AdWare.SoftPulse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
33706

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.Agent.Win32.13653
2.0.0.1959

File size:
1.3 MB (1,403,936 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Language:
English

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/23/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/24/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, STREET=Calle el Pozo 17B, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, PostalCode=38670, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00C30222BF83B5AE2CB666E51380D11646

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/26/2014 12:49:56 PM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:EeKezF165g5l/gwb9+gBT4PRIQLCLdDRhRrMSKMjZZteTfu4MMDid:EwrHbnBMFCLFRh1uw38

Entry address:
0x7C20

Entry point:
E8, C8, 41, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 3E, 27, 00, 00, FF, 35, 94, DE, 47, 00, FF, 15, A0, 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, 9C, 46, 47, 00, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, E8, 27, 30, 00, 00, 68, 94, AA, 47, 00, 8D, 45, F0, C7, 45, F0, 94, 46, 47, 00, 50, E8, 7C, 27, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.5711

Code size:
85 KB (87,040 bytes)

The file setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

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