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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 pzaodplz7n.h0x7rf3iwy.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
e7e469a5974fd8c2eb01ae4e39cecf4f

SHA-1:
f8ff4ed487b6790a81218af9fc3405e9b63ffc20

SHA-256:
3517176d26c172bf2f7601789a966fa58c8647faf42bf194bd9b2978b90ed271

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 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
11/7/2024 12:36:17 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.8.2.7

File size:
932 KB (954,336 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:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/23/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/28/2015 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=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
457A2C44F936DD8EEF974AFC80E53578

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
11/8/2014 2:15:49 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:26IMwPvmB/wWq+5DUTt7FGSwmpu8nL6YK:26j19rut7FoU56

Entry address:
0x13716

Entry point:
E8, BD, 79, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, C0, 10, 00, 00, 3B, 0D, 70, A8, 48, 00, 75, 02, F3, C3, E9, C2, 7B, 00, 00, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 74, 24, 8A, 01, 83, C1, 01, 84, C0, 74, 4E, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 75, EF, 05, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 01, BA, FF, FE, FE, 7E, 03, D0, 83, F0, FF, 33, C2, 83, C1, 04, A9, 00, 01, 01, 81, 74, E8, 8B, 41, FC, 84, C0, 74, 32, 84, E4, 74, 24, A9, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.4053

Code size:
172.5 KB (176,640 bytes)

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

http://pzaodplz7n.h0x7rf3iwy.com/Iil801pjuQStVuDFumN5fFc_xHl0oekma1cDhHlJpP3clAtvRBspzxAz7Mc6LLUWLt9hCnaSOsf_Ugkn2hDYZB9YuKzsDGT74LUnIUexy6d8dg3J02OXom-4Nvuy79OG?sbb=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