home

setup.exe

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 az852137.vo.msecnd.net.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
ae016a4cbe4fb3dbb147a8a495f160ff

SHA-1:
a22683fc568dfdc9200ae07f9f402d27eb076e64

SHA-256:
22b7ba3953bd3169565120df0a96d7fd65527781e1662d4e0c120496322e1275

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:
1/14/2025 11:09:56 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.7.25.22

File size:
1.2 MB (1,256,872 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:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
8/6/2015 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
11/5/2016 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=GUIA DE ISORA, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
64D481E288350B6CBBECF091BAFA549F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/12/2016 10:14:18 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:y24cktv7Bj1kcww+G3gMrQ7Q7u+RgZD6mbVIpqiX48Yi/XA:y2ktIc/R2F6pdo8fw

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, CC, 35, 88, 00, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 89, 08, 50, 45, 43, 6F, 6D, 70, 61, 63, 74, 32, 00, 35, 52, D3, B3, B1, AB, CA, 19, 98, 9F, F7, 67, BC, D8, B6, 63, 40, 58, 50, C2, 00, C6, CD, 31, 2E, 62, 79, 13, F8, 45, 28, 9B, 97, 46, 7E, E0, 3A, B4, 15, 53, DD, DD, 14, A7, 0C, A0, 7E, A0, 43, 73, AF, 7B, D7, 53, 3F, 8D, CB, 62, 29, 62, 3D, E9, A2, 79, 86, 3B, 3B, 67, 79, A3, D1, 32, 79, 32, 51, 0A, 67, 4B, 42, 90, CF, 88, 2E, 89, 89, 3C, 04, 78, B2, 78, DD, FE, E8...
 
[+]

Entropy:
7.9867

Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
3.6 MB (3,763,200 bytes)

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

http://az852137.vo.msecnd.net/MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEyMzQ1NiProOU3b-W_o5LbfvwT8lyEnlfgzO8YRSz2MP6hYTrWGRQKy8b4LcNje4JZWDfUza6g5PPld1zRJL2E2i5c7pj6Mp_Ey0QtVadigoXUemF-pF6P-tKeg6-yNZPgnxNnTbitw8gnmVDUG1KbCK-oSdHWue4yJ60aRHLS5pjG1REcaFkEyTzKR_0JxAEjnl2lG_5d4lJlHSyJOKu-g8GLGyui9H7-wOmeWXp0Ur3mIDa9iCNxIA0_TvUv2d8jlWwbsTz1TkCBiuy1FDsuAHTtHPdDwr6QJjlO1olb0bRBrHcx6tPaLE_6PEZzgjJYnrliCHmQucTCyceb0krMXZ6aFhHjqb-pC83g6mbjNJZAHnbNBPFzt4jLEyzkOZa9VnUwL_iIjDTtWwRw7Sd8OBaG1D5yNF0yMYHK3DIM5J9qpHyG83QOFF3qX3-uG_WkodhpQQ==

Remove setup.exe - Powered by Reason Core Security
herdProtect is a second line of defense malware removal platform powered by 68 anti-malware engines in the cloud. Since no single anti-malware program is perfect 100% of the time, herdProtect utilizes a 'herd' of multiple engines to guarantee the widest coverage and the earliest possible detection.