setup.exe

Digital Plugin S.l.

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 S.l has been detected as adware by 30 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from kyle.mxp2387.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin S.l.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
91081cc82f87e057714ce6a45ccb81ef

SHA-1:
47c768d23e5e5b0638446491b1caaace81e26750

SHA-256:
6f6a219ead085b4a0890ab86ce53a4b9ee44a824d030d3f6d86bc88e2ceb9aff

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 8:48:24 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Trojan.Generic.11738692
802

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.Agent
2014.09.22

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Softpulse.Gen8
7.11.173.140

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-AH [PUP]
2014.9-140918

AVG
Win.Threat.High
2015.0.3347

Bitdefender
Trojan.Generic.11738692
1.0.20.1640

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Agent-11683
0.98/19411

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Trojan.Generic.11738692
8.14.11.24.06

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse (variant)
8.10445

F-Prot
W32/A-ee49b44a
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Trojan.Generic.11738692
11.2014-24-11_2

G Data
Trojan.Generic.11738692
14.9.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2014.11.24.23

IKARUS anti.virus
not-a-virus:AdWare.Agent
t3scan.1.7.8.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13432

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.Agent
14.0.0.3232

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.DigiPlug
v2014.09.19.01

McAfee
Socrydo
5600.7003

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.185.642.0

MicroWorld eScan
Trojan.Generic.11738692
15.0.0.984

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.SoftPulse.dfhulg
0.28.2.62151

Norman
Malware
11.20140919

nProtect
Trojan.Generic.11738692
14.09.21.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.09.19.01

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSl.F
14.9.19.1

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Adware.Softpulse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
33120

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.Agent.Win32.12778
2.0.0.1929

File size:
1 MB (1,062,632 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/13/2014 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/14/2015 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin S.l., O=Digital Plugin S.l., 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:
229111B20CCF13394E8E6CA9EAB4121F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/16/2014 10:09:34 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:4mfVKeJeWFhd8I/WH0iXIIfCCbiZpYPab0T0W:3NFdWUiXpfVkptb0Tl

Entry address:
0x6607

Entry point:
E8, 11, 2A, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 74, 24, 8A, 01, 83, C1, 01, 84, C0, 74, 4E, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 75, EF, 05, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 01, BA, FF, FE, FE, 7E, 03, D0, 83, F0, FF, 33, C2, 83, C1, 04, A9, 00, 01, 01, 81, 74, E8, 8B, 41, FC, 84, C0, 74, 32, 84, E4, 74, 24, A9, 00, 00, FF, 00, 74, 13, A9, 00, 00, 00, FF, 74, 02, EB, CD, 8D, 41, FF, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
7.7842  (probably packed)

Code size:
63 KB (64,512 bytes)

The file setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 5 URLs.

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