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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 player.exe by Digital Plugin SL has been detected as adware by 27 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. This program installs potentially unwanted software on your PC at the same time as the software you are trying to install, without adequate consent. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from drdppv.yh3xu7wi3f.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
2dcbc548ca57e747712e0096323acef0

SHA-1:
1ef5a7c185c82e7ca190615f60e7d19c2a110f0d

SHA-256:
4d6bf968cd263064fd33ebdd832b834135e70adc0172b347657b28ca5ee210b5

Scanner detections:
27 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
4/26/2024 9:14:26 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
6428453

AhnLab V3 Security
Win-PUP/SoftPulse
2015.01.25

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Softpulse.aonb
7.11.204.248

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-CU [PUP]
150101-1

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3219

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
1.0.20.120

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Softpulse-128
0.98/19994

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.SoftPulse.D
20833

Dr.Web
Trojan.Domaiq.114
9.0.1.030

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.W potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/Zbot.AAN!tr
1/24/2015

F-Prot
W32/S-557dffdc
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Riskware.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
5.13.68

G Data
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
15.1.24

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.192.14744

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.DriverUpd
15.0.0.543

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SoftPulse
v2015.01.30.12

McAfee
SoftPulse
5600.6875

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
16.0.0.72

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Agent.dmwput
0.30.0.65070

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
15.01.24.10

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse
15.1.24.22

Sophos
PUA 'SoftPulse' (of type Adware)
5.09

Vba32 AntiVirus
Signed-Adware.Softpulse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
36694

File size:
873 KB (893,936 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.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/23/2014 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/28/2015 4:59:59 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:
457A2C44F936DD8EEF974AFC80E53578

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/24/2015 8:53:20 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:H33f6iBcSgv6QpC6pvQcHeIFTpQuUmAHoEZ2:Hf6YcS01vQgVdcFo

Entry address:
0x9E76

Entry point:
E8, 9D, 52, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 5D, E9, 6F, 05, 00, 00, 3B, 0D, A0, 41, 42, 00, 75, 02, F3, C3, E9, 14, 53, 00, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 14, 57, 33, FF, 3B, F7, 75, 04, 33, C0, EB, 65, 39, 7D, 08, 75, 1B, E8, 3E, 54, 00, 00, 6A, 16, 5E, 89, 30, 57, 57, 57, 57, 57, E8, FD, 04, 00, 00, 83, C4, 14, 8B, C6, EB, 45, 39, 7D, 10, 74, 16, 39, 75, 0C, 72, 11, 56, FF, 75, 10, FF, 75, 08, E8, 4C, 2B, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, EB, C1, FF, 75, 0C, 57, FF, 75, 08, E8, 4B, 3C, 00, 00, 83...
 
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Entropy:
7.8659  (probably packed)

Code size:
107 KB (109,568 bytes)

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

http://drdppv.yh3xu7wi3f.com/3SO0vuh9a3aPiIIqBobVaa3ZUZVxnSQf6RM2B7LrZJRCCQuQHLdMdTk1DAcSfMvVwUOH_nVBjm1Zyxcr81Wth34KqHVN42qC0oVt7RjHOFRyaAgp0F3o9OU3pn7MKAvNPScC2D4Dbz2QyOfp0X-n89o1T6QfxArwdJK4AMt0Gh9NvVu2vIwinIr_0ExiYgwBvvVP9YF88M4lvBfBEBcOSw

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