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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 27 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
e340d0119832701d657db8061ef2e504

SHA-1:
1f364b2313bd2d69e990a2693d8c9a9bd2c44f44

SHA-256:
6a4619ad873e02528ab43c9f8a21f1fb24b7bb94b0dcbe3ca44d98d89724c566

Scanner detections:
27 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Bundle or install adware offers through a modified download manager or installer.

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:
4/29/2024 12:10:51 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.182456
6009578

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Downloader
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.SoftPulse
2015.05.07

AVG
Potentially harmful program Downloader.FLA
2014.0.4311

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.182456
1.0.20.635

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Dr.Web
Trojan.Domaiq.175
9.0.1.0127

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.182456
8.15.05.07.08

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.AA potentially unwanted application
9.7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
Riskware/DriverUpd
5/7/2015

F-Prot
W32/S-518019ef
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Riskware.Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor
11.2015-07-05_5

G Data
Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.182456
15.5.25

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of unconfirmed 515926.crdownload (Adware)
2015.8.5.9

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.SoftPulse
t3scan.1.8.9.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.202.15633

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.DriverUpd
14.0.0.2078

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.DomalIQ.SID.A
v2015.05.07.08

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.182456
16.0.0.381

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.DriverUpd.dqcfvx
0.30.24.1357

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
15.05.07.08

Quick Heal
PUA.Digitalplu6.Gen
5.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
Threat.Softpulse.Bundler
15.5.7.4

Sophos
PUA 'SoftPulse' (of type Adware)
5.14

Vba32 AntiVirus
Downloader.DriverUpd
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
39486

Zillya! Antivirus
Downloader.DriverUpd.Win32.224
2.0.0.2142

File size:
540.4 KB (553,328 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\content.ie5\1zgkrfhg\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
7/2/2014 11:47:28 PM

Valid to:
7/2/2015 11:47:28 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=GUIA DE ISORA, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
08030F4F595ED0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/1/2015 7:34:28 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:qLuIc4IslQfZ+Py0w42yytoRFaO+TBPIWUpk75:qLuKIuQfZ+PyZ4HTPaO+BIWU

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, C0, AD, 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, DA, FA, 69, C4, 2B, 0C, FD, 10, 21, B8, BE, BF, 26, D2, 10, 48, 75, 90, 9E, D5, E7, CE, 58, 7C, C1, 79, 6D, E9, 07, 0C, 44, EF, B3, 0A, C9, 36, 3B, 50, E9, B6, 06, 16, BF, 1C, 5B, 3A, 52, 49, D5, A6, F8, 41, D5, 4D, 5D, B2, 8E, CC, ED, 84, FB, F4, 22, F5, 0C, F2, B2, 8A, F9, 74, 4D, 82, CE, A5, 90, 4B, 23, AC, 29, 37, 56, 45, C3, BA, 0F, C2, 58, EB, 40, 29, F1, 71, E9...
 
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Entropy:
7.9319

Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1010.5 KB (1,034,752 bytes)

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