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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 nz5zz.instante.giftshook.eu.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
957e6b5c5db1df62de9f923bb00ba43d

SHA-1:
7f3469ff046dfc28799dbdc6dc8d62bca46ffdf7

SHA-256:
728276c95a3e47ed1d0e6a66c8acd7162852f9704465f5233585e0ff779a8c35

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:
4/12/2025 10:34:45 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.7.31.0

File size:
1.3 MB (1,391,864 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:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/25/2014 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/26/2015 8:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Adeje, 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:
6B59702469CAA1B8F0FE3A86D94D6266

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/2014 1:52:32 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:rt2/JJJJJJJJJJJJJ7JJJJJOnOnOnOn3xwwncncnJEGBAFPJ8SJmU/2FYYak+F0G:RYFFYYQ0gPY43/fT

Entry address:
0x22DC

Entry point:
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Code size:
97 KB (99,328 bytes)

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

http://nz5zz.instante.giftshook.eu/AIRmediaplayercpaBR.html

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