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:
c944fbbaa665f9b67d42b0399a953b3b

SHA-1:
f84a9f7fdd74df1f3168adeef2ec1d31906e39c5

SHA-256:
36cea5a495eb749968b712daa4374805751e8a9ab9ef5b9d822b71c56b69032a

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:
5/12/2024 4:54:06 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.5.18.6

File size:
703.5 KB (720,352 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

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/24/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/29/2015 1:59:59 AM

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:
12/29/2014 1:53:12 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:NHgLxi7Ma55+pDZIWcZWO5RgbdtK15LRCxg1RHeDpMgv4t1goX86rE:NHMiAe5aIWiFHktK7eDpMgvO11M6rE

Entry address:
0xFFF6

Entry point:
E8, 9A, 7E, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 5D, E9, BF, 1A, 00, 00, 8B, FF, 51, C7, 01, 2C, 45, 43, 00, E8, 12, 7F, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, F1, E8, E3, FF, FF, FF, F6, 45, 08, 01, 74, 07, 56, E8, CC, FF, FF, FF, 59, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 83, C1, 09, 51, 83, C0, 09, 50, E8, 1F, 38, 00, 00, F7, D8, 59, 1B, C0, 59, 40, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 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...
 
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Code size:
149 KB (152,576 bytes)

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

http://ttb.3jo7fi5.com/download/request/.../4vEoIKcf?__tc=1420111804.148&lpsl=796dc6697162243b65be526d0fa3927c&expire=1420196961&slp=www.cfinalsoft.com&pub_id=P&ce_cid=M5M6pXRVxxDeZJd1JuaB18F_qc8hd3UMB5YVTsu3WuTSDY1lkbNNHa8kknId-bID0cM0_l-WcNOSwZwZ_QsYifcQnGF28CkVJp5vmpWE6fWvkPJdUlGWPBEUH0O5W-0GGYp5lB_76_fKSTJnQULnqiJiB845kiQFbBMVC4HF-tIdmcAmrsjBsd3j_n9gGKds4xRel3Sll-9Q0_y2M0DkN-sUDCjUYyk2-3ntZVvnPN29pMZNPwckKGJqynENQBFR9PnOOt7rxnIU9YFZKKw9IMBLe5MU3Ie5i2QsM-CveWagqE3nRLWNxZboTaWBTTJ6j79vyeAGNsL7AnHGKH8Z6Slq7r6C_PDGwWzt__pLXDreFSlY8t2qExaxjOz7tLnuaniFTWLUGDyQDa5hg0tl99FpsEWi7mPOCqiS1fV5mhS0scODZSLSxtQcsg&fileName=Player

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