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 31 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. This program installs potentially unwanted software on your PC at the same time as the software you are trying to install, without adequate consent. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.lpmxp2013.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
2ed2fa4816f4ba1d67aa188ce9432f6f

SHA-1:
f76feb9a70c4fa40f1f23a8d4a41263a5dc47e51

SHA-256:
be7eb7b760b6d35c32d92b522b7b0a31d15adecd282dc32f644e1cda05c65365

Scanner detections:
31 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
11/15/2024 6:36:26 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DomaIQ.15
5863612

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Downloader
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.DomaIQ
2015.05.05

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Inject.nslq
7.11.155.70

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-A [PUP]
2014.9-150504

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3119

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DomaIQ.15
1.0.20.620

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Multiplug-33061
0.98/20413

Dr.Web
Trojan.Domaiq.189
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DomaIQ.15
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.D potentially unwanted application
9.7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/A-c5e56af4
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Riskware.Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
5.13.68

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DomaIQ.15
15.5.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2015.8.2.13

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.203.15797

Kaspersky
HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
14.0.0.2092

McAfee
Program.CryptDomaIQ
16.8.708.2

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DomaIQ.15
16.0.0.372

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Inject.dbobdv
0.30.24.1357

Norman
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.46906
03.12.2014 13:20:04

nProtect
Trojan/W32.Inject.1245704
15.05.04.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
15.05.04.02

Quick Heal
Trojan.Buzus.B4
5.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Softpulse.Bundler
15.5.4.10

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Inject!6.1A18
23.00.65.15502

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Total Defense
Win32/Tnega.SVOYSf
37.1.62.1

Vba32 AntiVirus
Trojan.Inject
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
29708

File size:
1.2 MB (1,245,704 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/22/2014 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/23/2015 7:59:59 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:
6/13/2014 11:15:51 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:dhRyk5BKO3gux5cGnWYu2qR3Jai7r9rfPn9vYjzNJJJJJJJJJJJJJ7JJJJJOnOn9:dh4qvQImGWYu2w7Nmnp

Entry address:
0x3B5D

Entry point:
E8, 7F, 38, 00, 00, E9, 39, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, FF, 75, 08, 8B, F1, E8, 5F, 00, 00, 00, C7, 06, 5C, BA, 41, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 56, FF, 75, 08, 8B, F1, E8, 5F, 00, 00, 00, C7, 06, 5C, BA, 41, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 56, FF, 75, 08, 8B, F1, E8, A0, 00, 00, 00, C7, 06, 44, BA, 41, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8D, 45, 08, 50, 8B, F1, E8, 44, 00, 00, 00, C7, 06, 44, BA, 41, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 56, FF, 75, 08, 8B, F1...
 
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Entropy:
7.5804

Code size:
100 KB (102,400 bytes)

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

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