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player_setup.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_setup.exe by Digital Plugin SL has been detected as adware by 13 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.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d3714fb3e890484662ff9e9efba8482a

SHA-1:
9ea348ee79890f6b0f8006b94f045aeb1e56290d

SHA-256:
11f557a0cbaca4f2170b35a1a857506cd18be5898a5b0efc4ca3e9898119572d

Scanner detections:
13 / 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:
4/25/2024 4:23:32 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.8
524

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-S [PUP]
2014.9-150830

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
8.15.08.30.12

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.H potentially unwanted application
9.7.0.302.0

F-Secure
Riskware.Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2015-30-08_1

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of 00000001 (Adware)
2015.8.30.0

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.8
16.0.0.726

Norman
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.46906
11.20150830

nProtect
Trojan/W32.Buzus.1387192
15.03.24.01

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
15.7.27.13

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
31208

File size:
1.3 MB (1,387,088 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/26/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/27/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Adeje, 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:
6B59702469CAA1B8F0FE3A86D94D6266

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/20/2014 11:40:01 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:sD0vT6MRnMFkDGYudfVHlG6EvJ72DgiB8mdtBA1FYTtkUnO3lOeE:BRHYlJlG1vJ720iBXzT6F3lOh

Entry address:
0x6756

Entry point:
E8, 74, 43, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, B5, 13, 00, 00, FF, 35, B0, 2E, 47, 00, FF, 15, E4, 40, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 19, E8, 6B, 3B, 00, 00, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, 82, 48, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, 99, 48, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, D9, 48, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, A6, 13, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, C9, C3, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, C7, 45, FC, 74, A5, 46, 00, E8, A8, 2F, 00, 00, 68, 7C, FF, 46, 00, 8D, 45, F0, 50, C7, 45, F0, 6C, A5...
 
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Entropy:
7.5799

Code size:
74.5 KB (76,288 bytes)

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