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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 37 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:
a927f2b400b3458593ce3c81f92f8538

SHA-1:
e4a6db2f2eded19f4440aaf6ad1b9f5d9c503a86

SHA-256:
fea5b27f0e0cb4875bbfa63884bc6a761294b32919c24b9b58ef98d723646c50

Scanner detections:
37 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
4/26/2024 7:02:37 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.8
5651644

Agnitum Outpost
Trojan.Buzus
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.DomaIQ
2015.04.19

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Dropper.Gen
7.11.30.172

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-S [PUP]
2014.9-150419

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3135

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.8
1.0.20.545

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.MultiPlug-31138
0.98/20344

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.SoftPulse.E
18952

Dr.Web
Trojan.Packed.28257
9.0.1.0109

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.H potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/Buzus.OVQC!tr
4/19/2015

F-Prot
W32/A-6f8f7593
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Riskware.Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
5.13.68

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse
15.4.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of chromesetup.exe (Adware)
2015.7.20.19

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.SoftPulse
t3scan.1.8.9.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.202.15641

Kaspersky
Trojan.Win32.Buzus
14.0.0.2168

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.DomaIQ
v2015.04.19.08

McAfee
Socrydo
5600.6791

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.SoftPulse.8
16.0.0.327

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.MLW.dcoqvj
0.28.2.60990

Norman
Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.46906
03.12.2014 13:20:04

nProtect
Trojan/W32.Buzus.1387088
15.04.17.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Buzus.BR
15.04.19.08

Quick Heal
Trojan.Buzus.A4
4.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Softpulse.Bundler
15.4.19.3

Rising Antivirus
PE:Trojan.Dropper!6.1A2A
23.00.65.15417

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Trend Micro House Call
ADW_PULSOFT.SM
7.2.109

Trend Micro
ADW_PULSOFT.SM
10.465.19

Vba32 AntiVirus
Trojan.Buzus
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
31208

Zillya! Antivirus
Trojan.Buzus.Win32.121215
2.0.0.2143

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 10:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/27/2015 9:59:59 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 8:40:01 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:sD0vT6MRnMFkDGYudfVHlG6EvJ72DgiB8mdtBA1FYTtkUnO3lOeQ:BRHYlJlG1vJ720iBXzT6F3lO5

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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