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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 29 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. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.lpmxp2025.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
248536f2d5d7976f08034e88396de4e0

SHA-1:
2f24158123aa9f5ab7b81a09da10f4c0abe1a31b

SHA-256:
c7ce4c83942eeeeb1895d686522cd5b5e02e18bfea94ffcbb6fbb74358c8b0e8

Scanner detections:
29 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the DomainIQ download manager to bundle additional potentially unwanted software without adequate consent.

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:
5/25/2024 2:59:59 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.AY
6506914

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OptimizerPro
2015.02.02

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Dropper.Gen
7.11.30.172

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-AH [PUP]
150129-1

AVG
Dropper.Generic9
2016.0.3211

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.AY
1.0.20.160

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.MultiPlug-31138
0.98/21511

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.SoftPulse.G
20930

Dr.Web
Adware.SoftPules.3, Trojan.Packed.28213
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Application.Bundler.AY
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.H potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/Buzus.OVQC!tr
2/1/2015

F-Prot
W32/A-93d66bbd
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Riskware.Application.Bundler.AY
5.13.68

G Data
Application.Bundler.AY
15.2.25

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.SoftPulse
t3scan.1.8.6.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.193.14824

McAfee
Program.Socrydo
16.8.708.2

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.AY
16.0.0.96

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.MLW.dcgbac
0.30.0.65070

Norman
Application.Bundler.AY
02.01.2015 13:58:24

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
15.02.01.10

Quick Heal
Trojan.Buzus.A4
2.15.14.00

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.Softpulse
15.2.1.22

Sophos
PUA 'DomainIQ pay-per install'
5.10

Vba32 AntiVirus
Trojan.Inject
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
36666

Zillya! Antivirus
Trojan.Inject.Win32.78259
2.0.0.2051

File size:
1.2 MB (1,210,528 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:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
5/25/2014 9:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/26/2015 8:59:59 PM

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:
7/11/2014 8:50:40 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:SUyrumsLQIB+JSZ3FuZMGrU0IzoMn4AADw49n:LyrxyBtkZMGo0IzoM4Ay9

Entry address:
0xC4BA

Entry point:
E8, 37, 3B, 00, 00, E9, 39, FE, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 33, CD, E8, 92, C1, FF, FF, E9, DD, FF, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, EC, 33, CD, E8, 83, C1, FF, FF, E9, CE, FF, FF, FF, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53, 56, 57, 89, 28, 8B, E8, A1, 78, 62, 44, 00, 33, C5, 50, FF, 75, FC, C7, 45, FC, FF, FF, FF, FF, 8D, 45, F4, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, C3, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53...
 
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Code size:
146 KB (149,504 bytes)

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

http://www.lpmxp2025.com/.../Setup.exe

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