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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 dl.wishapp.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
9ede21dac7b6c1e43a6d32bd1f34c56d

SHA-1:
71dda9a7dd8f86997b8cc8cb89d067d5e7dd926a

SHA-256:
31c52cd7faca9368c9755d2ca0d4a5a891638e9e27dc6048a391db1f38452706

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 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:
12/27/2024 5:07:28 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.7.19.13

File size:
536.1 KB (548,984 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:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/26/2014 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
9/27/2015 5:29:59 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:
5/19/2015 2:15:51 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:zRLRGoiTMwQrSgAH2XNLHIIL2gcb78Ki9iv5R:LkMwwSRILHIDdiOH

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 14, AD, 59, 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, C3, 16, 69, C4, 2B, 0C, FD, 10, 21, B8, BE, BF, 26, C7, 95, 89, 78, 6C, A7, 23, 8F, 5B, 52, 93, B6, 09, 50, 3B, 77, 79, 6E, F2, 3C, 7A, 5C, AE, 5A, E6, 70, 5D, 19, 90, DE, 77, 60, 32, 8C, 94, D5, 38, 27, C0, 43, FE, DF, CD, 89, 92, 96, 91, E1, B1, 14, 95, 1E, 0D, B0, ED, 06, AC, A6, 86, 5D, CF, 8D, 08, E2, A0, 1A, F7, 48, D2, 90, 1E, D8, F6, CB, 54, 16, 9F, 66, C8, A7...
 
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Entropy:
7.9374

Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1 MB (1,076,736 bytes)

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

http://dl.wishapp.com/.../setup.exe

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