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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 az845772.vo.msecnd.net.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
5ec1d01339eb5792e8e31b5cd6e46826

SHA-1:
14ee7335fb53cb8d761bdb456d0c1a6433dbd144

SHA-256:
bb13238305f9e845df432a96e66ab7fb992ee2f86254765b1e2715553d6e2bcb

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:
5/2/2024 6:49:41 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.1.26.13

File size:
562.4 KB (575,912 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 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/6/2016 12:59:59 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:
1/18/2016 10:02:20 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:16UgAChMIRVNqT+vWsmg3PdoyoKPhIStk6n8opAqXzo:1npChM+Vfz3myxPhdtk68G7Xzo

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, F0, AF, 5A, 00, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 89, 08, 50, 45, 43, 6F, 6D, 70, 61, 63, 74, 32, 00, 10, 3B, F6, 14, D7, E7, AA, 56, E0, 7E, 15, F3, 0D, 6B, 6F, 01, C9, EA, 77, FE, F4, 94, 72, 30, 3D, AF, F6, BE, 39, 90, 02, 64, 63, E1, A9, 7D, 20, 20, A5, 61, 18, A4, 39, C2, 90, 55, B5, FB, D5, 61, D9, 47, 5C, 05, 66, 64, D5, 6F, 56, EA, 40, 2D, 79, 1C, BF, 07, EE, 38, F2, BF, BC, 5B, 9B, A4, 70, 47, D0, 03, 07, E3, F6, 89, 1C, 1E, 09, 02, 69, A6, 5A, 55, FE, 91, 2E...
 
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Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1.1 MB (1,104,384 bytes)

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

http://az845772.vo.msecnd.net/GetMPSing?dd=http://.../MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEyMzQ1Niv6ubkM0gk0thri0HZOGDX8h_J6dmG_BiRRPsIky35kM_AZ6ZiN9h3QGqZ0Qql0ViEc4PfO9uNWZXcvG2lyAR_zYkmS2p5F3z9harDW6rhu-rKqsSwW-Og-dVtktiqQqDp3UiG9Q_TrBnHqrkVyDBgdCtAal96BOVihZdZq39UxgCqjWXgMVQ29mMe8a1KWeE2rXtKTaG7SGDbmh_IHitO-1iiw74Z_OY8BuxASmFz0vIlzge9PZDJtlCi2OL0XnhkODMo96dVRtwTqC8zXxvxHbgvH7fpSD4Mmcydi5B3g6jn9Ljy0uXcAFdzdgunydYUyNtYEcWOFOx-cuHNZa7r9YGHv5rSdj5Vg4mHmKfXpkdB8Mbi_J4XEaCN_d1UNfSY8kxb-4BzdHh0AMmxeEs9X5phcJi_hr4aZMF65z1YX23HIZ5WoQ1J0YglRDqfggA==

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