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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 20 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
bcc679816d4ebe3c774fa93f4ef55bae

SHA-1:
5a6d63d5bcc32999dc580629306191c179f46540

SHA-256:
be2e7539836780719fc892e4ab4ddac47ec6d050b01ccc2bd3739b009d611454

Scanner detections:
20 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundle or install adware offers through a modified download manager or installer.

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:
1/14/2025 3:09:09 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.182456
5629308

AhnLab V3 Security
Win-PUP/SoftPulse
2015.06.03

Avira AntiVirus
PUA/SoftPulse.oanl
8.3.1.6

Arcabit
Trojan.Application.Graftor.D2C8B8
1.0.0.425

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3090

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.182456
1.0.20.765

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Dr.Web
Trojan.Domaiq.252
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.182456
10.0.0.5366

F-Secure
Riskware.Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor
5.14.151

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.182456
15.6.25

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.204.16111

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.DomalIQ.SID.A
v2015.06.02.02

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.182456
16.0.0.459

Norman
Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.182456
03.12.2014 13:20:04

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
15.06.02.02

Quick Heal
PUA.Digitalplu7.Gen
6.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.Bundler
15.6.2.13

Sophos
PUA 'SoftPulse' (of type Adware)
5.15

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
40552

File size:
690.3 KB (706,880 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/26/2014 8:00:00 AM

Valid to:
9/27/2015 7:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Guia de Isora, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
63B78976E4F16AA4AC250388162DD349

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/1/2015 10:45:28 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:zwxBlc0XSuXvpwPN3jDn2FFszlN3140ae8g1DU4qrdsgkoeim7qMplx4IIw:zuS0XbXvpENOnsrLay1DU4qEiOFlmS

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 68, 6D, 67, 00, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 89, 08, 50, 45, 43, 6F, 6D, 70, 61, 63, 74, 32, 00, 6A, 7C, 5F, 4A, CD, C3, EA, 10, 04, 1A, 7E, EA, 4C, D5, 3A, C7, 0A, 94, F9, F6, D8, 87, AD, 43, 0C, 47, CC, F7, F3, 37, FC, 43, 84, 57, A0, A7, A1, C2, 47, 92, E4, 45, 8C, 08, A3, 8E, C7, 5C, 8E, B2, D6, 50, A3, 5E, FF, 3C, 95, 5A, B7, 80, 8F, 36, 1F, F1, 59, 77, B7, FC, 90, 0C, B5, 22, D5, B2, C3, 1D, 91, 13, E8, 2D, 44, DC, 3C, 04, B7, 84, FE, 6E, FD, D2, 55, E9, C8...
 
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Entropy:
7.9617

Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1 MB (1,088,000 bytes)

The executing file has been seen to make the following network communications in live environments.

TCP (HTTP SSL):
Connects to lga15s44-in-f30.1e100.net  (74.125.226.94:443)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to ec2-52-25-196-249.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com  (52.25.196.249:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a23-13-171-27.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.13.171.27:80)

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to a23-13-165-163.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com  (23.13.165.163:80)

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