setup.exe

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 ttb.8pthb56p6v.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
80c22acd3c669e8c4a3b8f0d3dbaad58

SHA-1:
321658d37979e7088026985fdfd85f93add64695

SHA-256:
7b13bed79b7064f07c11841919158718f456c6aebf48397efc7fc13972121fa9

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 4:53:13 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.7.23.17

File size:
1.5 MB (1,523,160 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
9/24/2014 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/29/2015 2:59:59 AM

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

Issuer:
CN=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:
457A2C44F936DD8EEF974AFC80E53578

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
10/15/2014 6:33:57 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:apa/O74CNt3r2J2FC3eUldZUJ3OlKU4UDcc6Cy+9eG:XcZC35VcOcmDcc6Cd

Entry address:
0x7F26

Entry point:
E8, 14, 43, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 46, 25, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 34, 48, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, EE, 2C, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, C9, C3, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, C7, 45, FC, 24, A5, 48, 00, E8, 74, 2F, 00, 00, 68, 3C, 06, 49, 00, 8D, 45, F0, 50, C7, 45, F0, 1C, A5, 48, 00, E8, A8, 25, 00, 00, CC, 55, 8B, EC, 53, 8B, 5D, 10, 8B, C3, 56, 83, E8, 00, 0F, 84, DC, 16, 00, 00, 48, 0F, 84, C4, 16, 00, 00, 48, 0F, 84, 8E, 16, 00, 00, 48...
 
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Entropy:
7.5259

Code size:
81 KB (82,944 bytes)

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

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