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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.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
0ea07fdb5ee00d9d801f5467858c02b0

SHA-1:
941ca554a089fa056c027e3115d7998e33487e9a

SHA-256:
e823cf8419e944c343d7607847148b53bb0bf1fe743bc9f4d731f2a852d697b6

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:
12/24/2024 1:50:22 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.16.11

File size:
1.6 MB (1,626,072 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Language:
English

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/23/2014 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/28/2015 8:59:59 PM

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:
10/9/2014 7:11:04 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

Entry address:
0x6978

Entry point:
E8, DB, 40, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, B4, 26, 00, 00, FF, 35, 20, CD, 4A, 00, FF, 15, DC, 50, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 19, E8, D2, 38, 00, 00, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, 7C, 47, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, 93, 47, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, D3, 47, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, A6, 2B, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, C9, C3, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, C7, 45, FC, C4, 30, 4A, 00, E8, 4D, 2F, 00, 00, 68, 1C, 94, 4A, 00, 8D, 45, F0, 50, C7, 45, F0, BC, 30...
 
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Code size:
76.5 KB (78,336 bytes)

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