player.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.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. The file has been seen being downloaded from ttb.9buqwgjm6k.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Version:
1.0.0.1

MD5:
bb52757a1f5449e2e16f41c08fb720dd

SHA-1:
780e1856a858900f1b23c20dca424de38892f456

SHA-256:
6957c5f4f6e5c26c259393717f3ab114093541c186b9fe673276ac1e8400d63b

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 '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:
5/11/2024 6:29:56 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.6.27.8

File size:
1.6 MB (1,626,072 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.1

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Language:
English

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/23/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/28/2015 6:59:59 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:
10/9/2014 5:11:04 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:+zD5urNhRWx2Mk4JJQByw7Imlq3g495S0PwbphrpgXXOZuv/rTWeR5j4UwJZQUYp:m6/ye0PIphrp9Zuvjqa0Uid2

Entry address:
0x6978

Entry point:
E8, DB, 40, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, B4, 26, 00, 00, FF, 35, 20, CD, 4A, 00, FF, 15, DC, 50, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 19, E8, D2, 38, 00, 00, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, 7C, 47, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, 93, 47, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, D3, 47, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, A6, 2B, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, C9, C3, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, C7, 45, FC, C4, 30, 4A, 00, E8, 4D, 2F, 00, 00, 68, 1C, 94, 4A, 00, 8D, 45, F0, 50, C7, 45, F0, BC, 30...
 
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Entropy:
7.4833

Code size:
76.5 KB (78,336 bytes)

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

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