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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 minecraft.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. With this installer, users are expecting to download Minecraft but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d3f5cc64a483c8b625078bb4b8ce66eb

SHA-1:
c78cecb2cfdb9deb911706c5b6aee0a307b23bae

SHA-256:
3961b1f386575236fcf215f892752a5bda9556b2a9f1eaab102dff1fd78731b3

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:
6/17/2024 10:50:26 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.2.4.5

File size:
750.7 KB (768,696 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\minecraft.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/27/2014 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:
4ED5D9A2F23912A93AD2937C038B77F4

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/7/2015 1:22:09 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:SqYg2hnTLIAqo6EbWe70cYxhypcMJUrYc27ZuIm1HVjCu9ZgiWfUUwLrKr+:Sq12hLIAqoHWouXMJUrk7Z5m1HgWZest

Entry address:
0x8A1C

Entry point:
E8, 77, 04, 00, 00, E9, 37, FD, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 28, 03, 00, 00, A3, 48, D1, 40, 00, 89, 0D, 44, D1, 40, 00, 89, 15, 40, D1, 40, 00, 89, 1D, 3C, D1, 40, 00, 89, 35, 38, D1, 40, 00, 89, 3D, 34, D1, 40, 00, 66, 8C, 15, 60, D1, 40, 00, 66, 8C, 0D, 54, D1, 40, 00, 66, 8C, 1D, 30, D1, 40, 00, 66, 8C, 05, 2C, D1, 40, 00, 66, 8C, 25, 28, D1, 40, 00, 66, 8C, 2D, 24, D1, 40, 00, 9C, 8F, 05, 58, D1, 40, 00, 8B, 45, 00, A3, 4C, D1, 40, 00, 8B, 45, 04, A3, 50, D1, 40, 00, 8D, 45, 08, A3, 5C, D1, 40...
 
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Entropy:
7.9253  (probably packed)

Code size:
32.5 KB (33,280 bytes)

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

http://wqthao7ldq.costurban.com/74NmcrVsUhHKfHI5nSvtVFlm0htyIu_IhHwuAbfQquwu3iUYQ65V1hBp215jfwZRYBkFIfROAfk80qFPzGDZ97Cy6DE6x5PjMyRPG4A1jVfGR6Kliez0upmDjzSoqGI9Zuh0kbFrYWTn8JR0Mn8aQ_0XTYFiN0CXE3aDe4qFE7U8WdgwfchVRnNLyxZ0pQLV

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