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

MD5:
a2714f2b4ce63e6f38e94a6fdb228b14

SHA-1:
f89e5b218bf27409144a13387ea95aaeb88327a7

SHA-256:
29bb4a983f3116a7a0d0060ac42ff5f9e224eea40e71455f5befb19af8daef5d

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:
11/12/2024 7:41:36 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.2.3.23

File size:
518.9 KB (531,312 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:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/25/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/26/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Guia de Isora, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
63B78976E4F16AA4AC250388162DD349

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/9/2015 10:53:19 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:r94hz08xqd0h7WgX3NaT9CP7acQXvQdgkyKL/IzGbUt577A:ZWxq+hN3Nhdg/yqe

Entry address:
0x1AA3CB

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:
7.9423

Packer / compiler:
ASPack v1.08.04

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,216,000 bytes)

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

http://admin.jmagno.com/AF0EzAEdZ0lQIqSxNkB8hNjXxepQ3CzRPpxSl2d9VQRmuJJkOEk4YT5B6xvMJg7jbUIcQNDeF5ES-WL-CAZZUxdlj3TC6Ec9ttvphTrvlq6FPftu9ZoT6vzun60D0S061KUVT48ngNzai2S7zwntz0iMFckqQAmpVs7JBJSIC5qhWLnJeipX7pYRJH5zquMLqTh6fwnugQwSQLjzRWdOWYrFRbi9ir9J4W0IqyaJMHa86bBY_oWYxg2Pd0MKIvFgCBLFxMWX45Jd30zA5ooW7x0kFKS6tOiacrKG6OXE_7d94uwZ588T4DxapcFy9uRSX0pO4zFx7gFKF2ZarKzQtIjt7PiHnxiK6jv2hpG3aASWVuFrQHTxywF_guT3qAsPy5ZKTF4GeganDCBJvpWfVAKFoHbaJjRUeS7UXTQM_CE

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