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chromesetup.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 chromesetup.exe by Digital Plugin SL has been detected as adware by 21 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
55b14af612621064a9f96b0631202875

SHA-1:
bc63f8b8cc06951fb324ad4d268ce8c90db60a95

SHA-256:
110c9e1e46ae9b7b3f949ce525a63d6052fcb9f5de50c1f049c4dac75219c00a

Scanner detections:
21 / 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:
4/19/2024 10:26:37 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
6324531

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Downloader
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.SoftPulse
2015.03.29

Avira AntiVirus
PUA/SoftPulse.oany
3.6.1.96

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-FI [PUP]
2014.9-150401

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader
2016.0.3156

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
1.0.20.435

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Dr.Web
Trojan.Domaiq.185
9.0.1.087

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Strictor.82398
8.15.03.28.06

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.AB potentially unwanted application
9.7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/DriverUpd
3/28/2015

F-Secure
Riskware.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
5.13.68

G Data
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
15.3.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of setup.exe (Adware)
2015.7.3.7

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.DriverUpd
14.0.0.2276

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
16.0.0.261

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.DriverUpd.dpsdgl
0.30.8.659

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Bundler.Softpulse
15.3.28.18

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
39354

File size:
548.7 KB (561,912 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\content.ie5\5xth1rkm\chromesetup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/28/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/29/2015 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=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:
4ED5D9A2F23912A93AD2937C038B77F4

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/26/2015 1:49:32 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:gl/NiIoYAbvZO7wNJgHO78VN4zN8EMDOVUjW3Xg8oSABBx:gZjoY4EEyHWqN6KjzbPx

Entry address:
0x1E3F00

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 60, 56, 00, 8D, BE, 00, B0, E9, FF, 57, 89, E5, 8D, 9C, 24, 80, C1, FF, FF, 31, C0, 50, 39, DC, 75, FB, 46, 46, 53, 68, 29, 15, 1E, 00, 57, 83, C3, 04, 53, 68, FA, DE, 07, 00, 56, 83, C3, 04, 53, 50, C7, 03, 03, 00, 02, 00, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 55, 57, 56, 53, 83, EC, 7C, 8B, 94, 24, 90, 00, 00, 00, C7, 44, 24, 74, 00, 00, 00, 00, C6, 44, 24, 73, 00, 8B, AC, 24, 9C, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 42, 04, 89, 44, 24, 78, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 0F, B6, 4A, 02, 89, C3, D3, E3, 89, D9, 49, 89, 4C, 24, 6C, 0F, B6, 4A...
 
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Entropy:
7.9450  (probably packed)

Code size:
508 KB (520,192 bytes)

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