home

setup.exe

taskhost

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 pqardr.mw72bsn.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Product:
taskhost

Version:
5. 4. 5. 4

MD5:
7692fe391b0d18603662841cfdb31436

SHA-1:
74b7b6040729fd2c14bedb9297556a98306743e9

SHA-256:
2b1b1b7c8e0ce6e692ebf51a30d8e7c52432e24b72727c1b80904a77a383ec55

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 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
1/12/2025 4:31:21 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.7.23.0

File size:
703.4 KB (720,248 bytes)

Product version:
6. 5. 4. 6

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014

Original file name:
taskhost.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Language:
Spanish (Spain, International Sort)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/24/2014 7:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/29/2015 6:59:59 AM

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

Issuer:
CN=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:
457A2C44F936DD8EEF974AFC80E53578

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/29/2014 7:53:12 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:hHgLxi7Ma55+pDZIWcZWO5RgbdtK15LRCxg1RHeDpMgv4t1goX86r:hHMiAe5aIWiFHktK7eDpMgvO11M6r

Entry address:
0xFFF6

Entry point:
E8, 9A, 7E, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 5D, E9, BF, 1A, 00, 00, 8B, FF, 51, C7, 01, 2C, 45, 43, 00, E8, 12, 7F, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, F1, E8, E3, FF, FF, FF, F6, 45, 08, 01, 74, 07, 56, E8, CC, FF, FF, FF, 59, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 83, C1, 09, 51, 83, C0, 09, 50, E8, 1F, 38, 00, 00, F7, D8, 59, 1B, C0, 59, 40, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 14, 57, 33, FF, 3B, F7, 75, 04, 33, C0, EB, 65, 39, 7D, 08, 75, 1B, E8...
 
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Entropy:
7.6980

Code size:
149 KB (152,576 bytes)

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

http://pqardr.mw72bsn.com/FsamqG1i1s8Nv4RCGEg2jXpQDzTQ0FFKoEjm27DGMv_QSlxqYmRnSRtK9DheeIdz6AOKAXyLUlLc186Y5zjlzPNhq4UlFHlSlDnB_RQe94qEw6Xl_Ev_Z7hvpfg4TEOf0FmXRZlYSgmop9Hv3OGwPljemtg6uAeOIX1mYio5E4U

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