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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. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from admin.getmagnosoft.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
214cd76f4bdd03ff85f1a594c2291a51

SHA-1:
7d33091d1651c527af139673eb6d43eb85bbbd27

SHA-256:
a64def03aa1a7affbbd90d42052efc70a59c5f84d073bd019f93bc63900a3c41

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:
12/25/2024 5:57:51 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.8.8.22

File size:
1.2 MB (1,239,488 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:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
1/7/2015 6:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/8/2016 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, OU=606372162, 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:
09630EF45908E3288578DD4139725FDD

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/23/2015 5:38:43 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:rDfYjzMGFC975ZsalP8G7RKxXB0xE36T27xomn:XfQBFC9dGaJYd36T27xou

Entry address:
0x47A7E0

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 70, 75, 00, 8D, BE, 00, A0, CA, FF, 57, 89, E5, 8D, 9C, 24, 80, C1, FF, FF, 31, C0, 50, 39, DC, 75, FB, 46, 46, 53, 68, D0, 8D, 47, 00, 57, 83, C3, 04, 53, 68, D4, 37, 12, 00, 56, 83, C3, 04, 53, 50, C7, 03, 03, 00, 02, 00, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 55, 57, 56, 53, 83, EC, 7C, 8B, 94, 24, 90, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 74, 00, 00, 00, 00, C6, 44, 24, 73, 00, 8B, AC, 24, 9C, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 42, 04, 89, 44, 24, 78, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 0F, B6, 4A, 02, 89, C3, D3, E3, 89, D9, 49, 89, 4C, 24, 6C, 0F, B6, 4A...
 
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Entropy:
7.9864  (probably packed)

Code size:
1.1 MB (1,200,128 bytes)

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

http://admin.getmagnosoft.com/MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEyMzQ1NhIv_Tz2wJULgc-nGlZY_B5hJ6dnixHLYJ9yklQDB_0qdIoHQA9dVvW1v30msprKVKE4x9sNHUw92rGflQQsyufwaAtUOEumDlY9w1rDLMAtmUJWjTNfLmXVIoyaZD6x_KPPW3DDYlFgHLNoCpY80b5l9FXWx9hXo8wvliWSAjUPfFCk7RGdowW-ZC2hB48MNx0x8kCRz6XNyVTPS8xQKCGUfnmYb0em0OnWWE1tKQN-WSB0FCIX_UTR4X4Ty9fAtfHNvnPCQYh6lKGLkWVYzIzR3p-ZG99eyp-d92mBQMs7cMobWxnviT95LAmbwDBRPFFQF-0bK98dXP6TssB0qUJSMYMuU2kB3ybZfzjt5s1HkUPUzXi7axophr05Sh4U7sncq_UhsAef9r5EYLTQ0xA=

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