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Player 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 Player 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. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from admin.obtainmagno.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
05c35dc4b768e6c13e6a4904acf2bd47

SHA-1:
a65032a89425e002b40586fea35e4d59df372ea6

SHA-256:
6980eec83820d08d3f6843c9072d948b788c3973d08359a9046d38e7a9d0e376

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:
5/28/2024 6:16:40 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.5.8.11

File size:
567.3 KB (580,952 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\player setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/25/2014 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/26/2015 8:59:59 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:
6/12/2015 6:10:35 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:E1khEYGha2bqs/zdSPe5h8yaoTmXAdyBmzErRcNW+6y7vkls:E1gr2n/zdSzGTmw8ozWr+6E82

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 48, FD, 5C, 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, 0A, 54, E6, 2B, 19, 27, 7C, 0A, C0, 66, 4E, 8A, 35, 05, 5F, 48, EB, D8, 87, 74, 62, 2E, 07, AB, CF, 46, 98, F9, A7, E7, 81, 57, BC, 6D, E1, D2, 86, 21, D4, 5D, 2E, 66, EB, 05, C6, D0, 83, B7, DE, 83, 1B, 00, 5E, 20, 6C, 2F, F8, F2, C7, CC, 94, 16, 19, 51, 80, B6, 79, 86, 7D, 7F, DD, F3, A5, D0, 1A, 31, 8C, 02, 57, 45, CC, 75, 5E, A5, 57, 97, DB, 14, 30, B9, 13, 8D, F7...
 
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Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,253,376 bytes)

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

http://admin.obtainmagno.com/MQxYJ4IJ6ndv7J0Ji52T5q7TVfkZjY8on70h4SMroucrnqrHsDZqdiUTNu6VhvZEST7QT8SRJ96Clw0K6VMT5zCmoQCs9EAdF1oi7RnrcWAWiJsXfMx9Se_yFHkA_6N8yalR5ZbGfj4ERFCzjkEsml3go_1WLhGscMKh9-R29aYb0_r014Mw--sUscwkbtHWikbr6_1W8QnomTwdti3taKndorWTbFWYxsISUnNRHNVfVbyJY-8Eq-WiYPEakWp9h4hv7dlRrsrH-VTC6GNpwUAyNxdwA1AmZB7KQ7X5W0-g-5wgrEyHL17-uEmb_obXQDYMi8R4Pjk6rVENpdlTiypnYIgF4DpaLcDw2jMZSx1GkTUbo2w4fvWcxAHn83Hn

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