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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 yztides9.1bjp4bn.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
bf9172e0a438658cd7e12e241f14dd54

SHA-1:
d283dd17152a3e46a35b698ecef3df1221d9d5f1

SHA-256:
b04a4ad10b4971c6e37ff911007929e6c7942c6a1354b93c0a1ed496ccffa645

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:
12/25/2024 12:57:14 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.6.28.11

File size:
466.5 KB (477,672 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 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
1/22/2016 1:59:59 AM

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:
2/28/2015 2:14:54 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:3e4F77HTQ7W3KJ7DEi1cMieYWRuaTEi+vTGbW:ds7WaJ7Qi115YWlTEiGCW

Entry address:
0x184390

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:
7.9385

Packer / compiler:
ASPack v1.08.04

Code size:
965.5 KB (988,672 bytes)

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

http://yztides9.1bjp4bn.com/esKG-qmgp1qPB2aO2zuPFj25dO4k0hiGmhOvmc4OIEfSC8q4juFnpNCUwr1nmFYDFIXjXgcF5irNLLkF7iZexjuzdrn2H73Wf2rC3cyT2z-4PAp6np3wSXrnaaJd0O5D4gn6NWYLpIddK9_Jge6OqQleY3ASIXZYQz_qzj-OLBkAvzVF3kCUz16VS4Tg9x9VZD_AUm3Cw5D1DUlH6MiwKQ

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