installation.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 installation.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.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
eec288f876263ed7468505b8fd5614be

SHA-1:
29a844166dc7d6fd511712c38bfb783573c61f06

SHA-256:
dd7012cf4aaac9b0597e76f3e8a5a0d4fce4496860df3d7c23360f1ae2179e65

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:
5/19/2024 1:48:32 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.9.11

File size:
668.2 KB (684,208 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
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:
2/6/2015 9:53:12 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 98, 25, 61, 00, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 89, 08, 34, 57, 78, 87, 89, 32, 34, 24, 65, 74, 00, 00, 40, 84, C9, 75, 40, C0, DD, 16, F9, 2B, C2, 56, 57, 8B, F9, 00, 20, 16, 00, 8B, 37, 85, F6, 74, 40, 83, 3E, FD, 74, 3B, 00, 74, 14, 8B, 06, 3B, C7, 74, 09, 5F, 70, 5A, 00, 83, 78, 04, 00, 8D, 70, 04, 75, F1, 75, 17, 68, BD, C0, 81, 58, 90, 68, 18, BC, 52, E4, BB, E8, DA, 0C, C5, 09, 65, 13, 00, AB, 83, C4, 0C, 8B, 47, 04, 89, 06, C7, 07, 5F, 5E, 00, 7C, 97, A2, 6A...
 
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Entropy:
7.9224  (probably packed)

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,218,048 bytes)

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