home

player.exe

taskhost

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.3jo7fi5.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

Product:
taskhost

Version:
5. 4. 5. 4

MD5:
0cd9b639b20ed7e55949a405001dc8f2

SHA-1:
f6cf3b74957f7a8adda699e274d7e0a21cef1633

SHA-256:
85fe7a799167eede2ca7be979b447b4da24b50682533f743097f6042d22cf155

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 is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
5/13/2024 3:08:10 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.5.8.7

File size:
588.5 KB (602,616 bytes)

Product version:
6. 5. 4. 6

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2014

Original file name:
taskhost.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Language:
Spanish (Spain, International Sort)

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

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:
12/26/2014 5:41:44 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:0XznQ+bCxWrUhLZvzC/igEhrNA9SNwyrYAmyhIna3PiGpYh7j4:FgIh0/iLhrekeKYAl4RN4

Entry address:
0xFEB6

Entry point:
B8, 0C, B2, 4B, 00, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 89, 08, 72, 77, 61, 68, 79, 75, 68, 64, 73, 34, 00, B2, 2E, 61, 31, F3, 47, 01, D3, 96, 96, 68, 81, 0A, E1, 1F, C5, 59, 80, F6, 07, 20, 84, 5D, 0D, 8B, 6B, 83, 1C, 68, 17, 09, 24, F0, 84, 12, A9, E6, 71, D1, 69, F3, 24, 8E, 3F, 77, 46, AE, F2, BA, 26, 2F, 05, B0, 68, 18, FD, 91, 84, 4D, A8, FB, 93, 07, 27, 83, C6, D5, D6, BD, 7B, B4, DE, 0B, 83, F7, 78, 8D, 6A, 2B, 18, 2D, BB, 65, C8, 1A, 46, 85, EA, 55, 06, A3, C7, E6...
 
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Entropy:
7.9618  (probably packed)

Code size:
148.5 KB (152,064 bytes)

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

http://ttb.3jo7fi5.com/download/request/.../4vEoIKcf?__tc=1419779235.202&lpsl=c9a0338f08a8fab541d46a3a393f3a1c&expire=1419865639&slp=www.cfinalsoft.com&pub_id=P35221008&ce_cid=V-QqpuBamAL9l7TtG0rjDs5G9OUKKDtAvnjsFSt2UqyllgeSdxMwTVYOZLfT2NXGQaqw236X0eQONdYLjfo-9ZYM3T_uQeiCv6Qv3drxKDgTMcQ6giGd-wgmxQuKjucyoN4wGXsvUNcpj_o2-h-wSQqfBdUHxzS-sboUKRo_-wIvbP9XJU_M3VGlKXNv9Utv2XNuWUwEf_Y5dhVcWTLzlU6Hei4DOwutI6vdnRXbqCnJCKW1YKblhxzdfqKOH8R_7MywQXAE3EAM_HnS3BKnn1HnUr9B1JNXko2N1H9_-BNYzv0yO0BzjAlDWwaq8pJzvj62SqegVgsWcTJzV53SlxypmDo6DA1m_ttT2sBvh5ghoC39bwxUC8zFGLfZPFKhl4uMu4LPKFtYoCtaX1YRkDKrgx__Ah6vYro&fileName=Player

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