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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 az852137.vo.msecnd.net.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
52656d8454c4e1b4ed2cc72843a687c9

SHA-1:
4fa5f1770450f9fdfecf966804d14866f0e48a87

SHA-256:
8b78ada2551ce516e123cca5fe431f500dfe654a8a71aeb17fb2a0ab0b001d0f

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:
11/23/2024 1:14:53 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.13.12

File size:
1.7 MB (1,807,272 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:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
8/6/2015 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
11/5/2016 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=GUIA DE ISORA, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
64D481E288350B6CBBECF091BAFA549F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/12/2016 10:14:18 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

Entry address:
0x47949B

Entry point:
60, E8, 00, 00, 00, 00, 58, 05, 9F, 02, 00, 00, 8B, 30, 03, F0, 2B, C0, 8B, FE, 66, AD, C1, E0, 0C, 8B, C8, 50, AD, 2B, C8, 03, F1, 8B, C8, 57, 51, 49, 8A, 44, 39, 06, 88, 04, 31, 75, F6, 8B, D6, 8B, CF, E8, 5C, 00, 00, 00, 5E, 5A, 2B, C0, 89, 04, 32, B4, 10, 2B, D0, 2B, C9, 3B, CA, 73, 26, 8B, D9, AC, 41, 24, FE, 3C, E8, 75, F2, 43, 83, C1, 04, AD, 0B, C0, 78, 06, 3B, C2, 73, E5, EB, 06, 03, C3, 78, DF, 03, C2, 2B, C3, 89, 46, FC, EB, D6, E8, 00, 00, 00, 00, 5F, 81, C7, 8C, FF, FF, FF, B0, E9, AA, B8, 9B...
 
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Entropy:
7.8452

Packer / compiler:
ASPack v1.08.04

Code size:
3.6 MB (3,763,200 bytes)

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

http://az852137.vo.msecnd.net/MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEyMzQ1NiProOU3b-W_o5LbfvwT8lwKAajFTjp0m8MqPyHvT6OmQxpCOIRXaNSoGUUAWMzARg6jKBxQ7sPUHjgItDyZqT_FRpDIWbJTRMEIo6T5v7GOYlt_FeIvry5BVs_ktpUeum4xckRnZXWUyW19Iv48F9wUmD8qBf133YplxFUFIE80xb3e77TnHDoNuubbfqICiunjkH0HNKVjFkGSDr4ZpS62q2MrncPokZjhiCLsQrVXmUBldmeotAl7VnfFi_mCy2GjZf0bWwsmUsUwh1PNned1yz1T7RVoM-zYX69bJpdrvviYW8PmKB1f3TxceSDfvn6we3hNzYDtN-V2yN75HpwFCPLBW4vDFWHjUVdvrQnulV_iFhIDRkx3NuDLk0-lPFwCH35Rlea5v6q8P74x8xx-ecncXeGSsqAfbGfhH7W18O-ozC_YH72HF1BGOAHtOg==

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