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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 ttb.lpmxp2176.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a5fc8537d1b25b7cf3dfea845649124b

SHA-1:
db1da26f1af6bf6b4652e4c93660f8ee4b194ca6

SHA-256:
90cd25f9524b713862097383301abbaf0d51813f056ccc508cd8feb2eb112270

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:
11/25/2024 11:22:11 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.6.7.14

File size:
1 MB (1,056,800 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:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/22/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/23/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, STREET=Calle el Pozo 17B, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, PostalCode=38670, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00C30222BF83B5AE2CB666E51380D11646

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/18/2014 10:14:45 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:oJ0FPl0XoDnqgEdhlaCT3xXGHRXjEuuMjM4jm6dVriAUli8WXHXlp:oWFPaXGalaCTt8XjwoGji8

Entry address:
0x351D

Entry point:
E8, 0C, 3D, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 0F, 00, 00, 00, 3B, 0D, 90, A0, 41, 00, 75, 02, F3, C3, E9, 07, 44, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 08, 00, 74, 2D, FF, 75, 08, 6A, 00, FF, 35, 10, B9, 41, 00, FF, 15, 68, 20, 41, 00, 85, C0, 75, 18, 56, E8, 10, 45, 00, 00, 8B, F0, FF, 15, B8, 20, 41, 00, 50, E8, 15, 45, 00, 00, 59, 89, 06, 5E, 5D, C3, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 44, 24, 0C, 53, 85, C0, 74, 52, 8B, 54, 24, 08, 33, DB, 8A, 5C, 24, 0C, F7, C2, 03, 00, 00, 00, 74, 16, 8A, 0A...
 
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Entropy:
7.7975  (probably packed)

Code size:
64.5 KB (66,048 bytes)

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

http://ttb.lpmxp2176.com/download/request/.../xb9onqTr?__tc=1411060304.306&lpsl=c1a71e767aa8ac067485160a5cd9cf70&expire=1411146702&PubID=151107&tgu_src_lp_domain=www.prosoftlst.com&ClickID=31512386581411060301&fileName=Setup

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