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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 admin.jmagno.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a9e34dab0db9ea0bac9ed66afd38b0d5

SHA-1:
a512b5ef18f4b6936812dc5128ef7a54e027198b

SHA-256:
06628607c323c5cddcf90ef2a3d90f71c6e48a50aa996b2e413b92e88cbeb22f

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 an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
11/12/2024 7:43:35 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.2.3.23

File size:
518.9 KB (531,312 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/25/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/26/2015 6:59:59 PM

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

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

Serial number:
63B78976E4F16AA4AC250388162DD349

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/9/2015 10:53:19 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:r94hz08xqd0h7WgX3NaT9CP7acQXvQdgkyKL/IzGbUt577P:ZWxq+hN3Nhdg/yqN

Entry address:
0x1AA3CB

Entry point:
60, E8, 00, 00, 00, 00, 58, 05, 5A, 0B, 00, 00, 8B, 30, 03, F0, 2B, C0, 8B, FE, 66, AD, C1, E0, 0C, 8B, C8, 50, AD, 2B, C8, 03, F1, 8B, C8, 57, 51, 49, 8A, 44, 39, 06, 88, 04, 31, 75, F6, 2B, C0, AC, 8B, C8, 80, E1, F0, 24, 0F, C1, E1, 0C, 8A, E8, AC, 0B, C8, 51, 02, CD, BD, 00, FD, FF, FF, D3, E5, 59, 58, 8B, DC, 8D, A4, 6C, 90, F1, FF, FF, 51, 2B, C9, 51, 51, 8B, CC, 51, 66, 8B, 17, C1, E2, 0C, 52, 57, 83, C1, 04, 51, 50, 83, C1, 04, 56, 51, E8, 5E, 00, 00, 00, 8B, E3, 5E, 5A, 2B, C0, 89, 04, 32, B4, 10...
 
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Entropy:
7.9424

Packer / compiler:
ASPack v1.08.04

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,216,000 bytes)

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

http://admin.jmagno.com/Uqsv8uUEUMQwERvwxsauiYljavu1qFoOWu_1ViONEQF152YQvk-gv48Ho1E04t1Ig2lpCUkW0fF6u_C8AgdcaXvbJV6UBg06GyC6LHupKlamef_Tk8dE5NBhlSkbawnFQKR-4JtThoyEtHF9mY0l45g9h6g5t_OvtHkpQIZXS1GkwE935Rg9F-tiW0ob5O_lNVs4hG5iOvukjyOCSru_GVpH410akEYaX0mpb6VCM7xYithNgOxlQyXjysLdjRcWAfcwvtZKVo4qNu5KkYp52je-GKtw26OqaXhUxR5NXo0dtBpubVw6HHyJrE2QxhwNyYDHr0c6JCT8WrkoNq7AihrZW1ICg8hpDdzYroMSydtOKJtsXvO52ERkaVa_f1LRnLihmgVPfrQqkTIwamlT1GwZU8P2iLay2NmU9vIgBx8

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