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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. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from admin.magnodown.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d969b848f9f62dcd200d08b192f78d8d

SHA-1:
cfa11022798cb59d6ef7e267723ef7c2b6c4a179

SHA-256:
34a82df9d17956140f347c240a140811563a8d2b7d23030b558bf26fbac72f23

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:
11/15/2024 3:05:08 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.6.13.9

File size:
589.9 KB (604,040 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
1/20/2015 4:00:00 PM

Valid to:
1/21/2016 3:59:59 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:
7/27/2015 5:59:16 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:p4efV5INoSUUgDp8YROY1Rxi27DuSK8p6a70RxIza/eL8bWk:pjINoSGp8kOYli27DFBIa70R3/eLsd

Entry address:
0x1E03CF

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:
7.8967

Packer / compiler:
ASPack v1.08.04

Code size:
1.3 MB (1,366,528 bytes)

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

http://admin.magnodown.com/ne2QrwbMAkOFuh5XzlkiJYhQcla9V8dLHD-Lpf414VZH2EgVjsFb60dD_TwK8eocCGGp7WMyA_IrMOEkQLgVukdPqRInbAaApEGeN5ytwasZPb-IE-_72uv4lZpqaWJms0oZzTgO5D2cBEfc8xvFbmnCoxGOO2p-rDCMb0QAEK0XIc1bhm7W3K2U5xN3fom2nSAI18g7T8OeWKPtB7oiqlESltTe4Ddcoa81WqI56lTfC2b156rrDdlkREWnvqdQTIzbb6g_zQ00DpnssXHtfhKbqX6pefsfRq3ow3hftQ6Mp6xR37EHo7STrXBKNksoCZ6ji22J4MO1VTm2Jfvzaym0eT7i6ku3VQnizEDh2TSCrPTCqGUQC3PaFgm0dsqx5h85pLJX7XSJMUTy2I9JffOU38j7j2y5LU3R2A1uYA0

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