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

MD5:
a79931965a72e2ff1eb55b59f7189b7e

SHA-1:
ba6431c60d43937ecbe9318977ff77ebdccdd742

SHA-256:
ef6957b5a28b414cba758690012adfd82ad2f5795117dd70f5086e56b64a76c9

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:
11/15/2024 2:52:17 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.5.19.1

File size:
575.9 KB (589,712 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:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
1/21/2015 12:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/21/2016 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, STREET=calle El Pozo 17, L=Guia de Isora, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, PostalCode=38680, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=COMODO RSA Code Signing CA, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00B0E8D67D76278C69BC291F0124BD4648

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/5/2015 1:22:49 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:/wQvSTuCWAhHqYQPYUNj8GFI49aHzPd8EB4G8JddvBvGRx2T051TFz:b8HHqYQPYW9FyTPdx2Ge/vQRx2TQbz

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, D4, 8F, 5E, 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, 50, 2F, 50, DC, 53, 2D, 32, 82, DB, 91, DA, D5, FE, 63, 52, 25, 22, 19, 8E, CD, CA, 09, 54, EC, 40, 54, E8, 6C, 9D, 0C, B4, 50, D8, C1, 40, 22, 08, BF, 39, 8A, 3E, 07, 7A, 92, A7, 86, 6C, A4, D9, FA, EF, 99, F5, FC, 0D, A9, 3C, DC, 7D, 5B, 1D, ED, 5E, F6, 50, F2, 48, FE, FE, 16, DA, E2, 02, 04, 11, 00, 52, 42, 0D, DB, C1, 72, EB, 27, 44, 10, 71, EE, DB, B7, 72, CF, 78...
 
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Entropy:
7.9404

Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1.3 MB (1,374,208 bytes)

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

http://admin.magnodown.com/2_dYCkeMVJHrh1hSznm8wqldDi4xyJeucDfzfxCGWFy2ZOOb0BdT7nL8jeAG7SniEIpaDFWB8mbjrY-6HRvYywhqXCtbNOexlwOfj48uSh5ohxCo2drsgpJ0RiUFHEkYFzH5WnVXmWQEzDsqXDNTD2fSoxGs9OYyzX2NPItTQEU6NOV3h8iAk_KAmaPh3g6QxqHrvgriseLbCG8rBkjyO7qER7F2jYdzi17Df5QNA2qqTcCPBbxemyi8171RNnan_V577Dym3HO2-WvreOPh3nuCsxEUE6_98uplL-2p1TfbJZKlaJ_Iu3DLRLjcfvPOwYj9UhKoklNwuRgiYIeCEf9iuLzzVKVNe6BXMeQTymk4ztc8J3tUTA9dnrSPMML-4SbPpCTUhTGOXndhBf4fw6qdeCoUMU0GXfvkpQ9s81f_pnc-Ks53d_lLwRX5CQP4

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