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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. It is also typically executed from an Internet Explorer cache folder. The file has been seen being downloaded from admin1.jmagno.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
1803db3754fdf0249cddfed80e3d288b

SHA-1:
16f5085004174c6eb33e9803321b4d2ec7dfda2b

SHA-256:
fa43903b948499a4d6c3b37756aeb81c87b5208132444230aa31ef3e4e0870e6

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:
5/4/2024 1:28:36 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.7.7.4

File size:
578.4 KB (592,248 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/25/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/26/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Guia de Isora, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
63B78976E4F16AA4AC250388162DD349

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/10/2015 5:33:55 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:QPkZnNZwi3ZlYq/jVIO00rY/qMdb4GtcZy7HyLXz3v/Os3eSPclCR0+:yKN+qlYKjVz00rYiMd8z3vmsuSPc0R0+

Entry address:
0x1BF40B

Entry point:
60, E8, 00, 00, 00, 00, 58, 05, 5A, 0B, 00, 00, 8B, 30, 03, F0, 2B, C0, 8B, FE, 66, AD, C1, E0, 0C, 8B, C8, 50, AD, 2B, C8, 03, F1, 8B, C8, 57, 51, 49, 8A, 44, 39, 06, 88, 04, 31, 75, F6, 2B, C0, AC, 8B, C8, 80, E1, F0, 24, 0F, C1, E1, 0C, 8A, E8, AC, 0B, C8, 51, 02, CD, BD, 00, FD, FF, FF, D3, E5, 59, 58, 8B, DC, 8D, A4, 6C, 90, F1, FF, FF, 51, 2B, C9, 51, 51, 8B, CC, 51, 66, 8B, 17, C1, E2, 0C, 52, 57, 83, C1, 04, 51, 50, 83, C1, 04, 56, 51, E8, 5E, 00, 00, 00, 8B, E3, 5E, 5A, 2B, C0, 89, 04, 32, B4, 10...
 
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Entropy:
7.9243

Packer / compiler:
ASPack v1.08.04

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,229,824 bytes)

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

http://admin1.jmagno.com/ybWMPT6-7DUsrNwZTwr3D8yrWO1BEV95jiEwOdc_UtPkQU64xwFGbUlRFrcu9Logk-O8MNn-cbMBCTq0wKkn9xeCUI098ls49IMFJpf26L_DlrHJU1V8SRG8kPabt0JifCqvgjcElAHzWLrpRpVRpSSWQTaSuMuloI4ykVtld8JRyIB1ciJLXHaraKYJTXrVNyzDiOedyHgQVOPxjnVV44ML5oDJnJvXQWpF_DNkDa-UUyE6De2P5U7P2O2sCi8P9zaUNVPETxtk1ypv9-5LmlNu-d7GKdjcGk1_YoBXPFeh6I0PPqGM6v-vPm9yxzHOLmQnuRBTAYmamTZ7pyx9LqT2raW-3arU8_lv19pg8pNaziiI7eRT5eodb44tGDne-74RfCialVVkQKGuC2M8fWk6iUkYzP2AallS7f_5I9E

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