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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 8 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from www1.mediaplayernew.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
b2a67d2ef8643d5475372d4398d4e62e

SHA-1:
3de55f2a337d3089379316a4d673682203b85757

SHA-256:
2e7eb8d58503ea962ee5f25ad68536a078dd1564abe883c46ca2fdf2ef70c798

Scanner detections:
8 / 68

Status:
Adware

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
4/26/2024 6:01:58 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3373

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.Softpulse.A
18365

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.B potentially unwanted application
8.7.0.302.0

G Data
Win32.Application.SoftPulse
14.8.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of setup.exe (Adware)
2014.8.24.4

Reason Heuristics
PUP.DigitalPluginSL.G
14.6.12.9

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
suspected of Trojan.Downloader.gen.h
3.12.26.0

File size:
790.5 KB (809,472 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/22/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/23/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, STREET=Calle el Pozo 17B, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, PostalCode=38670, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00C30222BF83B5AE2CB666E51380D11646

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/27/2014 11:26:04 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:IawlctMtfAMwPUNjZqh5etJpruJxxjTc/jHsPDaYsk37:Iaw16MwPejQetYjTc/sz7

Entry address:
0x4D429

Entry point:
E8, EA, 7A, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 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, 40, 36, 00, 00, 6A, 16, 5E, 89, 30, 57, 57, 57, 57, 57, E8, D2, 0C, 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, 93, 12, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, EB, C1, FF, 75, 0C, 57, FF, 75, 08, E8, B2, 06, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, 39, 7D, 10, 74, B6, 39, 75, 0C, 73, 0E, E8, F1, 35, 00, 00, 6A, 22, 59, 89, 08, 8B, F1, EB, AD...
 
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Entropy:
6.3441

Code size:
454.5 KB (465,408 bytes)

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

http://www1.mediaplayernew.com/.../Player.exe

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