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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 kyle.mxp2387.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
48a29f0227a3d77070f972731973e965

SHA-1:
a497c92e12fa502696b8327858e12fd34ca616e0

SHA-256:
2bdc114e96e322e16aa3208a16a5f4270559e3408ebb8f1397bf7a40cfc8b084

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:
11/25/2024 8:53:51 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.3.8.11

File size:
1.3 MB (1,386,512 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:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/25/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/26/2015 6:59:59 PM

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

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4DFD897866A8F5930B794CCCDAA3E5A1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/27/2014 4:19:31 AM

OS version:
6.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:Mq+qn68d/9eY7xekbbG6GgT0EzUm3O2AR1mYpxkhn8OTYgpqomoFufWUxJkS9sQ1:Mq7669wmb7T0ELmmYs7tA

Entry address:
0x7DE0

Entry point:
E8, C8, 41, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 3E, 27, 00, 00, FF, 35, 94, 9E, 47, 00, FF, 15, A4, 70, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, 0A, 49, 00, 00, 59, 59, E9, 22, 49, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 62, 49, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 11, FF, 75, 08, E8, C0, 2C, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, 8B, E5, 5D, C3, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, C7, 45, FC, 70, 00, 47, 00, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, E8, 27, 30, 00, 00, 68, 8C, 65, 47, 00, 8D, 45, F0, C7, 45, F0, 68, 00, 47, 00, 50, E8, 7C, 27, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.5697

Code size:
85.5 KB (87,552 bytes)

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

http://kyle.mxp2387.com/Ve0yc5QswTWe2MlUMiEXa3TelmJgIadIV8VqfAQUt3Ipw7OPfLWx-_UIWaG0fwG_iOFuFWbrlVuigwZVDRE-AjtZiPYxEGE147ow4e0e_b3C1hNjnE3bqNUpGhN_dIRn?sbb=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