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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 t.cttsrv.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
ac60326ab5225af5071d3986e69d8cbb

SHA-1:
342940ee41a5479a826d967eaf0ac8ac5cd001b0

SHA-256:
7e2461cee72c92dd267a5cf3fa15b2d8216af7f9857b18d3c77bb3df9485be73

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:
5/8/2024 12:45:11 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.3.3.10

File size:
357.4 KB (366,024 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:
9/23/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/28/2015 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=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:
10/23/2014 7:51:08 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
6144:pj7pqcZKxTvR3TaukI9fD2xOdKCAJ/L4xGFdD6NrioBiX+TXBNy4Ij:pj7JKVVGukeL2xOdKd3dGAoBW+bBNy4

Entry address:
0xEE6E0

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 00, 4A, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 10, F6, FF, 57, EB, 0B, 90, 8A, 06, 46, 88, 07, 47, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, ED, B8, 01, 00, 00, 00, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, 01, DB, 73, 0B, 75, 28, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 72, 1F, 48, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C0, EB, D4, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B, 1E, 83, EE, FC, 11, DB, 11, C9, EB, 52, 31, C9, 83, E8, 03, 72, 11, C1, E0, 08, 8A, 06, 46, 83, F0, FF, 74, 75, D1, F8, 89, C5, EB, 0B, 01, DB, 75, 07, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
7.8090

Packer / compiler:
UPX v0.89.6 - v1.02 / v1.05 -v1.24

Code size:
316 KB (323,584 bytes)

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

http://t.cttsrv.com/mnpred?subid=231018zofXF6b18AgUdrAQrgAyMjczNzc0NTc2ICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICBOpk0_i8zAAAEAAAAAAFiTagEAIgABAAAAAgABAAAADwABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABlp_j0ZW5XSQEA&cost=0&ru=http://bidder.tlvmedia.com/.../click.php?subid=231018zofXF6b18AgUdrAQrgAyMjczNzc0NTc2ICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICBOpk0_i8zAAAEAAAAAAFiTagEAIgABAAAAAgABAAAADwABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABlp_j0ZW5XSQEA&redir=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1zaG90LmluZm8vZDliZThlNTMtYjg0YS00ZDU2LWExYTAtODBhNDNkMTM3Mzk0P2NvbnRleHQ9JFBBUkFNJA~~&subid2=7d4baHR0cDovL3dlYm1haWwucm9hZHJ1bm5lci5jb20vZG8vbWFpbC9mb2xkZXIvdmlld01lc3NhZ2UgTGlzdCAtIG5ldy5yci5jb20g&subid2=7d4baHR0cDovL3dlYm1haWwucm9hZHJ1bm5lci5jb20vZG8vbWFpbC9mb2xkZXIvdmlld01lc3NhZ2UgTGlzdCAtIG5ldy5yci5jb20g

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