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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)

MD5:
a6e2c19419b03133b2dfa786894f3840

SHA-1:
c9f522aebc1aeed17a0177aea2aa7931d848e59b

SHA-256:
219ac438c23f0b6dc5285826baaf921b75c946868e8861e00e251e0e3d5df499

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:
11/23/2024 2:00:17 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.15.5

File size:
668.2 KB (684,208 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:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/25/2014 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/26/2015 7:59:59 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:
2/6/2015 10:53:12 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 98, 25, 61, 00, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 89, 08, 34, 57, 78, 87, 89, 32, 34, 24, 65, 74, 00, 00, 40, 84, C9, 75, 40, C0, DD, 16, F9, 2B, C2, 56, 57, 8B, F9, 00, 20, 16, 00, 8B, 37, 85, F6, 74, 40, 83, 3E, FD, 74, 3B, 00, 74, 14, 8B, 06, 3B, C7, 74, 09, 5F, 70, 5A, 00, 83, 78, 04, 00, 8D, 70, 04, 75, F1, 75, 17, 68, BD, C0, 81, 58, 90, 68, 18, BC, 52, E4, BB, E8, DA, 0C, C5, 09, 65, 13, 00, AB, 83, C4, 0C, 8B, 47, 04, 89, 06, C7, 07, 5F, 5E, 00, 7C, 97, A2, 6A...
 
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Entropy:
7.9224  (probably packed)

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,218,048 bytes)

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