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Digital Plugin S.l.

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 S.l has been detected as adware by 34 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. This program installs potentially unwanted software on your PC at the same time as the software you are trying to install, without adequate consent. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.lpmxp2062.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin S.l.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
6f36a968df4346bf58aaea3ec2535cca

SHA-1:
90556d78c83d116da9700e63e2cfccd1ac1b3f2e

SHA-256:
855ba16756eedd949bd27f99c2ea75586630c34477b3aaf0eb72d34cacb54f78

Scanner detections:
34 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the DomainIQ download manager to bundle additional potentially unwanted software without adequate consent.

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:
4/10/2025 8:09:22 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
5913030

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.SoftPulse
2015.05.06

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Dropper.Gen
7.11.30.172

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-S [PUP]
2014.9-150505

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3118

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
1.0.20.625

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.MultiPlug-31138
0.98/21511

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.SoftPulse.G
22008

Dr.Web
Trojan.Domaiq.175
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse (variant)
9.10144

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/Buzus.OVQC!tr
5/5/2015

F-Prot
W32/A-93d66bbd
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Riskware.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
5.13.68

G Data
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
15.5.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of player_setup.exe (Adware)
2015.8.3.18

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.SoftPulse
t3scan.1.8.9.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.203.15806

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.DomaIQ
v2015.05.05.01

McAfee
Socrydo
5600.6774

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
16.0.0.375

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Buzus.ddtouj
0.30.24.1357

Norman
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.46906
03.12.2014 13:20:04

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
15.05.05.01

Quick Heal
Trojan.CoreBuzus.A5
5.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Softpulse.Bundler
15.5.5.9

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.SoftPulse!6.2091
23.00.65.15503

Sophos
DomainIQ pay-per install
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
ADW_PULSOFT.SM
7.2.125

Trend Micro
ADW_PULSOFT.SM
10.465.05

Vba32 AntiVirus
Trojan.Buzus
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
31208

Zillya! Antivirus
Trojan.Buzus.Win32.121372
2.0.0.2167

File size:
1.3 MB (1,407,144 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 S.l.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/20/2014 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/21/2015 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin S.l., O=Digital Plugin S.l., 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:
56A14602FE05DCEF0C5161F45F3065B5

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/24/2014 10:02:20 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:VtV/UHOeA2prp4OfbiWtFbexLRHfZiUkCHl9nWVA/1Fwr1pLqxj6+M8M:aBPbNjexaUkCH7Ww1odqxj67

Entry address:
0x6696

Entry point:
E8, 74, 43, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, B5, 13, 00, 00, FF, 35, C8, 0E, 47, 00, FF, 15, E4, 40, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 19, E8, 6B, 3B, 00, 00, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, 82, 48, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, 99, 48, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, D9, 48, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, A6, 13, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, C9, C3, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, C7, 45, FC, 18, 85, 46, 00, E8, A8, 2F, 00, 00, 68, E8, DE, 46, 00, 8D, 45, F0, 50, C7, 45, F0, 10, 85...
 
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Entropy:
7.3689

Code size:
74 KB (75,776 bytes)

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

http://www.lpmxp2062.com/.../Setup.exe

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