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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 setup.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 az842691.vo.msecnd.net.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
58da680d75ee00de9d65118156d0c887

SHA-1:
0f2c72a1a83ff04b521cbc69e03d0b49fab62c3b

SHA-256:
c5d5f5c88eb76ba6c3e17cd3a5f50333528ddd12928dbe4859d5c86b3eb8616e

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:
5/19/2024 9:50:47 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.2.4.0

File size:
674.9 KB (691,088 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
8/7/2015 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/6/2016 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=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
64D481E288350B6CBBECF091BAFA549F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
12/30/2015 11:08:49 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:4s9eJNhvHIzi0SRHxmVUOXem8MXv4LnroIEf/bWjD5bCETr+CAImjCcj04PYS:4s9eJTyil8UOX9xXv4von/KhbjTzAYS

Entry address:
0x1A5E70

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 80, 50, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 90, EF, FF, 57, 83, CD, FF, EB, 10, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89...
 
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Entropy:
7.8657

Packer / compiler:
UPX 2.90LZMA

Code size:
636 KB (651,264 bytes)

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

http://az842691.vo.msecnd.net/MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEyMzQ1NjwIDFBgQ4dR3ewz2AA4rIzu7_lm2nMopAs3tS1Jv-QWpkdC75POv65MxLQw-EdAJXJa8DZ6OLLISfJ3blFZi0uzlpEHpqkH5lzB7nfJSOCJTPLy-93knTiU76rhUWXD1OsS2ahM6oukqv9nBeqn6IW6L-MWG2lDzjZ-bYYVs-uspKBMO7aCVZAbxU4sckI8dCRop7mToSvfIrFSDT5SXQDTS4mjyxPfFXjJ3rPkvv1ZTuSpFwnE3kwqxUNJ0_NP9SNdonC7dOjnQU5SB7QihSp_5CTQYUabmCZLCTjh2TiRJ_c52p42KICXRcZ0FERNKtE0wZHCMp4pbMuN06Fy8JOcF9w6vvv1HSoFqjo7BI8GBknsP8Wqp1rmluSvCOxHy81g8k3XuO2vGine1AH1Kz5HBnf0th4KChocXjQ0ncaOLVUtWRV6T3P7XeM-NSLmrw1Evmm11hHYru5852wliNA=

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