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 playnow.chaseswing.eu.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
9c8aebc56ce20b7ba2a0c82056f1bcad

SHA-1:
72e50500c50c28bae9f9ac3ccf6ddab8a81a5c87

SHA-256:
d8676e72b474d6aa58d19137ce4e8b5790f34b77d246b3d217b6c982deab7358

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 '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:
4/19/2024 4:27:57 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.1.16.12

File size:
1.2 MB (1,256,904 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

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

Digital Signature
Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
8/7/2015 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
11/6/2016 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=GUIA DE ISORA, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
64D481E288350B6CBBECF091BAFA549F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/12/2016 5:14:18 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:D24cktv7Bj1kcww+G3gMrQ7Q7u+RgZD6mbVIpqiX48Y0c:D2ktIc/R2F6pdo8a

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, CC, 35, 88, 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, 35, 52, D3, B3, B1, AB, CA, 19, 98, 9F, F7, 67, BC, D8, B6, 63, 40, 58, 50, C2, 00, C6, CD, 31, 2E, 62, 79, 13, F8, 45, 28, 9B, 97, 46, 7E, E0, 3A, B4, 15, 53, DD, DD, 14, A7, 0C, A0, 7E, A0, 43, 73, AF, 7B, D7, 53, 3F, 8D, CB, 62, 29, 62, 3D, E9, A2, 79, 86, 3B, 3B, 67, 79, A3, D1, 32, 79, 32, 51, 0A, 67, 4B, 42, 90, CF, 88, 2E, 89, 89, 3C, 04, 78, B2, 78, DD, FE, E8...
 
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Entropy:
7.9820

Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
3.6 MB (3,763,200 bytes)

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

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