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 30 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from kyle.mxp2393.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
30dffca6cbfc38cba36ae73fdad81fa3

SHA-1:
f8ea81865f9383c0491257885db97a3ce39ce96b

SHA-256:
34761934ee2f7464c5e1db03a8385ea2787c8174d29782d5bf064544f56a8426

Scanner detections:
30 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
5/27/2024 7:20:46 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Trojan.Generic.11816518
827

AegisLab AV Signature
Troj.W32.Gen
2.1.4+

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.SmartSecure
2014.10.31

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Softpulse.Gen8
7.11.182.126

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-AH [PUP]
141025-0

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3305

Bitdefender
Trojan.Generic.11816518
1.0.20.1520

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Buzus-19937
0.98/21411

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.DomaIQ.FSX
19950

Dr.Web
Trojan.DownLoader11.34807
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Trojan.Generic.11816518
8.14.10.31.03

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.K potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/Buzus.UUTA!tr
10/31/2014

F-Prot
W32/A-d6a1f7ce
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Trojan.Generic.11816518
11.2014-31-10_6

G Data
Trojan.Generic.11816518
14.10.24

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.185.13853

Kaspersky
Trojan.Win32.Buzus
15.0.0.494

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SoftPulse
v2014.10.31.03

McAfee
SoftPulse
5600.6961

MicroWorld eScan
Trojan.Generic.11816518
15.0.0.912

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.SoftPulse.dflmyv
0.28.6.62995

nProtect
Trojan/W32.Buzus.1367064.B
14.10.30.01

Quick Heal
Trojan.Buzus.A4
10.14.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSL.M
14.10.27.11

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
Trojan.Buzus
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
34232

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.Agent.Win32.13361
2.0.0.1973

File size:
1.3 MB (1,367,064 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/25/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/26/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4DFD897866A8F5930B794CCCDAA3E5A1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/23/2014 7:52:03 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:zGjJZtAXaMb5YpCCNAfGU64giomYhXlZwVBhVS+JbIHICWKotTn+:zGNZpbmfLRgioDXz+BhA3SvVn

Entry address:
0x6D2E

Entry point:
E8, 26, 40, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 3C, 02, 00, 00, FF, 35, 78, 4C, 46, 00, FF, 15, 6C, 50, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 19, E8, 1D, 38, 00, 00, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, C6, 46, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, DD, 46, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 56, FF, 75, 08, 8B, F1, E8, 5F, 47, 00, 00, C7, 06, 30, B7, 45, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, C7, 01, 30, B7, 45, 00, E9, 6A, 47, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 24, 48, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, 07, 02, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74...
 
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Entropy:
7.5661

Code size:
78.5 KB (80,384 bytes)

The file player setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

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