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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 cidole7y.41hys0rbwb.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
2685a1ff773455976aa83d6bc6c2418a

SHA-1:
4af4cec96e98caca606f3cc6b6f7af7fef335393

SHA-256:
215d0a65c3eb985b4d82a751c9e76615edc607135785fc70c098a9bba7e503d9

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:
11/26/2024 9:40:41 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.8.9.3

File size:
1.3 MB (1,386,512 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014

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:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/26/2014 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/27/2015 2:59:59 AM

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 12:19:31 PM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:Mq+qn68d/9eY7xekbbG6GgT0EzUm3O2AR1mYpxkhn8OTYgpqomoFufWUxJkS9sQ6:Mq7669wmb7T0ELmmYs7t7

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://cidole7y.41hys0rbwb.com/6YPhL2uI0afEZW0bMO0ArTBxbc618r1jbVGQqd1jArqrsI91BB0UJuFgt-jVe0h4N9v1eVeDneo-A4ioNM3qEHb_ZyUObxM5XtvoKphtojp-iKiZ8Lc-vSQOudgwWgzi?sbb=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