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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 29 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 7thhhn5dslkg.pu4yx9jf.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a8ad5ecf024e7fd464cc3a2ce481101f

SHA-1:
9a7fac014650a117e24560e3ed8fb3ebe291ad04

SHA-256:
a1b99f926992ccb726f43b2635072ac482cfc27f83ad6f276d4dc80b49efe36b

Scanner detections:
29 / 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:
8/10/2025 4:27:33 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
6444161

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Downloader
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.SoftPulse
2015.01.26

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Softpulse.aonb
7.11.205.14

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

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3218

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
1.0.20.130

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Agent-36456
0.98/19978

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.SoftPulse.D
20848

Dr.Web
Trojan.DownLoader12.9817
9.0.1.05190

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

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.W potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/S-e8f52f8c
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
13.192.14746

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

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SoftPulse
v2015.01.26.12

McAfee
SoftPulse
5600.6874

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.P
16.0.0.78

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.DriverUpd.dmkovg
0.30.0.64812

Norman
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.154268
02.01.2015 13:58:24

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
15.01.26.12

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse
15.1.26.0

Sophos
PUA 'SoftPulse' (of type Adware)
5.09

Vba32 AntiVirus
Signed-Adware.Softpulse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
36666

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.Agent.Win32.37789
2.0.0.2045

File size:
934 KB (956,416 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:
1/18/2015 4:52:55 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:PcHbZJIX50gqW0rykU9ue8pD1u+t9kKz0psXM3OJ5b9Ocr/cQaBY0Lz46Nu4tWnS:E79Rr0ue8phB0pyp5bgOEUms6lWnl8x

Entry address:
0xD1C6

Entry point:
E8, 8D, 81, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 90, 27, 00, 00, 3B, 0D, 6C, 38, 43, 00, 75, 02, F3, C3, E9, 10, 41, 00, 00, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 74, 24, 8A, 01, 83, C1, 01, 84, C0, 74, 4E, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 75, EF, 05, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 01, BA, FF, FE, FE, 7E, 03, D0, 83, F0, FF, 33, C2, 83, C1, 04, A9, 00, 01, 01, 81, 74, E8, 8B, 41, FC, 84, C0, 74, 32, 84, E4, 74, 24, A9, 00, 00...
 
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Entropy:
7.7990  (probably packed)

Code size:
146.5 KB (150,016 bytes)

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

http://7thhhn5dslkg.pu4yx9jf.com/Kj02q8A2fJUytbBwK_CE4naXQwTQcpfARaSQHKG6_bNPazslyx013liyfeJk-atvuGvKcqh8IIq75SM2Vfz35pYc1Rg3HKbkLiHflZvjqS0MguhRGIRaJpnZtrKN8wPmXN6C0poG0UG2jTS7GTnC_7phQqDCf3sCulJOEP6ZVlwkbSEAETPTLslXXuAljsKCoDIPm2Z8sm2y04LQU38cEQ

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