setup.exe

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 az852137.vo.msecnd.net.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
c45c03a2e2cf0412e5bf6a78b1baeaa2

SHA-1:
e8097fbf5264c46f8e110089684678f919a102b2

SHA-256:
dd3c51c12d2edf98dbca5e976e20c02e643e8352e53dd0127e23fc29bde88487

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:
12/24/2024 3:18:08 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.11.15

File size:
1.4 MB (1,500,616 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
8/7/2015 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/5/2016 11:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=GUIA DE ISORA, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
64D481E288350B6CBBECF091BAFA549F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/12/2016 4:14:18 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, FC, 31, 88, 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, 80, 07, 2E, 70, 6A, 01, 68, D4, 6A, 00, B8, BC, A4, 76, 17, 00, A0, B3, 32, 02, 4B, 83, 65, FC, 00, C7, 05, 04, 50, 84, 00, C4, 9B, 40, EA, 02, 08, 83, 4D, FC, FF, 68, C0, 6B, 31, EB, CB, 59, 23, 77, 51, B8, 0B, 68, 55, 27, FC, F8, 08, C7, 45, FC, A3, FE, E5, D0, F8, E0, A8, 8E, 3F, AE, 97, 0C, 0C, C7, EA, F8, F1, 38, 9C, 00, 6C, 8B, AD, 19, 01, 20, EE, 06, 24, EB, 50...
 
[+]

Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
3.6 MB (3,763,200 bytes)

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

http://az852137.vo.msecnd.net/MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEyMzQ1NiProOU3b-W_o5LbfvwT8lzeTJNVqK05NPAtOJ13WYGDwcLd-FCd9moSGiov6D6FTzHpD-OWCzjIHxtunwLXpe8vrVnPgC4_Q1XFE3uG6hWYbIimpHURbnpzk0b8QMTjBevncYNpEvUdrV8p3VR5BArE3nFbxC_wMkwZbgzwA3L2-tpQ21fV8MNkjbhwehdZpYH9vAf8JsYQCKuSE5mI-dlqVSio-uf9rykFfav2TsEL-DkSAKbHHq8qLL-9WqNJI6M7_BR_8IzyIA3fa--W5T5lnTud48ck1Y2UnYUKmVGZ6SMjPwUnYq2nT5RZijrC4S64eAWxEJ8PyvubjFSfOhP71Fav-f2MwQuXc0nnduAWpKs8EMsTofbpFQ2IMoC9wBmjIk5Oa31o4CYuwf3pwmsFXVlml_SplUBZEBk5FKw78QsKrJBuZX-FmbgHREwhBzhATod9o66SxfxyjB0jFzk=

Remove setup.exe - Powered by Reason Core Security