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

MD5:
592c8152ee9c4fb8ccbea16bdfd2f554

SHA-1:
f2531add1b6aba6a8e4b9de3dd0b1263b3c1bd5f

SHA-256:
b6e6b9be606c3dbc88be84ff121f43c8d645cbde8c2515bf0a6db3539678278b

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:
1/12/2025 12:39:37 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.8.5.19

File size:
1.2 MB (1,261,048 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:
Symantec Corporation

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

Valid to:
1/9/2016 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, OU=606372162, 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:
09630EF45908E3288578DD4139725FDD

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/19/2015 1:27:22 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:z1n2oeePAAV2gNRQt3MuQWFZwtiOqk4PP4TSzN0PwnC37g00KfZltXozG:lP37G3xPwtnqk7TSzCInCLn0qZl5V

Entry address:
0x47749B

Entry point:
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Packer / compiler:
ASPack v1.08.04

Code size:
3.6 MB (3,758,080 bytes)

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

http://admin.magnoft.com/MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEyMzQ1NhIv_Tz2wJULgc-nGlZY_B7EyIK9q4trBTB1-8sR9y5ZLBM6kKwSkxfApwifNWAexcL1Fk-nacKZLOLWkp9J6kpq3gMghHOoc8l4mie1NWNO9rSAp5KrmTb61KecLL7ue01zdSqdmRzYlGUAhXSJB0R6JBFD56gbUKg-ji4rVMdqDFTZk97vknn3OySC2V8AvDdTGsjcRnyEfqRbY4D4911PiMBpiZRstPe1iliJt1clFVJgBmQpW28i1855RtQDGe5y_1Kg-atlM7LKoCGUJ4AM07l82Uqhib4W2nWgif40JzGuq4fVs40D732zmK6Qi8uzJceXwuo6Rx27Y7yRaC1eMcOsm2siNZrs08T2ylHzksSb7dMeFNTB6ygl1UJSO86Fj-U1nbVT4T5zCCWNI-QBloejARNEE3f3M3C6rZfh8-PiCLIjU3oUDVNUtIgZzQ==

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