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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 24 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.lpmxp22.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
c6a12b2f4d40fa4f22e4425c27e6e54e

SHA-1:
6383b5c456c4924ed2f3baf4283f39cbd0bade56

SHA-256:
5e754dc2b250dd2195f9586fd5ad2470c5d2a436c1e8295b2b1c878edf9e24fe

Scanner detections:
24 / 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:
4/23/2024 6:56:31 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.5
929

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Downloader
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.DomaIQ
2014.07.21

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Downloader.Gen
7.11.163.68

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-R [PUP]
140617-1

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3407

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.5
1.0.20.1010

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Application-487
0.98/19168

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.Softpulse.A
18922

Dr.Web
Trojan.Packed.26956
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.B potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/A-7488f3d7
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2014-21-07_2

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
14.7.24

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.SoftPulse
t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.181.12795

McAfee
CryptDomaIQ
5600.7063

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.5
15.0.0.606

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.MLW.dbbdly
0.28.2.60881

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.07.21.10

Reason Heuristics
PUP.DigitalPluginSL.G
14.7.21.9

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downloader.Agent
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
31208

File size:
790 KB (808,976 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:
5/23/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/24/2015 12:59:59 AM

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:
5/29/2014 10:55:06 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:ha3LEO+TPVMg+Ukjize2tWoQZEeYrmGxB7YpaLd6+R1sPDaYyo68B:ha3L8eg+UkjCoRZuB7YcvsK8B

Entry address:
0x4D4B9

Entry point:
E8, ED, 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:
6.3448

Code size:
454.5 KB (465,408 bytes)

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

http://www.lpmxp22.com/.../Player.exe

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