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Digital Plugin S.l.

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 S.l has been detected as adware by 11 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin S.l.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
4bcb0fd7c44d77a17e0ea413752055c6

SHA-1:
387034207f358a428e4bccf3b38618dc6e937128

SHA-256:
18a5ee5d3f4ada8f19b1903b75914530156703136139671c13ebe79f2335f79d

Scanner detections:
11 / 68

Status:
Adware

Description:
This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:
11/30/2025 6:03:04 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Dropper.Gen
7.11.30.172

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-V [PUP]
2014.9-140912

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3391

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse (variant)
8.10213

G Data
Win32.Adware.Softpulse
14.9.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of player setup.exe (Adware)
2014.9.12.23

McAfee
Socrydo
5600.7047

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.08.06.03

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSl.F
14.8.6.1

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
31208

File size:
1.2 MB (1,228,872 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 S.l.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/13/2014 5:00:00 PM

Valid to:
7/14/2015 4:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin S.l., O=Digital Plugin S.l., 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:
229111B20CCF13394E8E6CA9EAB4121F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/5/2014 7:08:46 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:GQpS/Z95/jnYn3Kz8MiWl5ishi9tpCFt/NVN/4u0XF272:GQE/v5bKPMFlAsgbKNP4jX1

Entry address:
0x8850

Entry point:
E8, 7F, 1F, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, EC, 20, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 40, 50, 41, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 8B, 4D, 08, 5F, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0D, F6, 00, 10, 74, 08, 8B, 01, 8B, 40, FC, 8B, 40, 18, 89, 4D, F8, 89, 45, FC, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, AC, 40, 41, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53, 56, 57, 89, 28, 8B, E8, A1, A0, 60, 43...
 
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Entropy:
7.7542  (probably packed)

Code size:
72.5 KB (74,240 bytes)

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