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:
e8a1dd8213f827a8116a2bd76e20c8bb

SHA-1:
ff62de8dd82da184fe1370bc3a4e2bc40ef6c928

SHA-256:
42fd8d2ff40df16e281ce422dacdb5bc7212058d8d3e6d7af0043f77e0ce677e

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:
11/6/2024 2:05:16 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.8.4.2

File size:
1.4 MB (1,500,584 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 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/6/2016 12:59:59 AM

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 5:14:18 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:XKp3A0hVZqV9CDrcvgTz1SikItCabnydz5UjvHBI4ScqN5kQSfq3hrxrjtEBMuKN:+31VZZgkz1S1Is558lSnNydC35dyMH

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...
 
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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.

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