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:
6c59a04fca9cdf7812cb611bd9d4ddcb

SHA-1:
cac9deb0ebc227663b4d69de0c1bd06ad830abbe

SHA-256:
2e626f208110055ebc8576e8c37a5614c363abd7f38cc53e14f0495d9a4ff1ec

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:
5/19/2024 2:51:36 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
17.3.9.11

File size:
668.2 KB (684,200 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:
7.9225  (probably packed)

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

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