setup.exe

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 29 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.lpcloudbox308.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin S.l.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
215fc77fc15f59624ee87585b679dd88

SHA-1:
9d2727e6511174c791b47c5910012c52f30f967e

SHA-256:
694affd748cd288d4ce21e2fcca059576d518fcf2da3b72473926c4e06ebe9a7

Scanner detections:
29 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
4/19/2024 1:17:37 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Trojan.Generic.11738692
806

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
Trojan/Win32.Agent
2014.09.22

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Softpulse.Gen8
7.11.173.140

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-AH [PUP]
2014.9-140917

AVG
Win.Threat.High
2015.0.3349

Bitdefender
Trojan.Generic.11738692
1.0.20.1620

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Agent-11683
0.98/19411

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Trojan.Generic.11738692
8.14.11.20.01

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse (variant)
8.10445

F-Prot
W32/A-ee49b44a
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Trojan.Generic.11738692
11.2014-20-11_5

G Data
Trojan.Generic.11738692
14.9.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2014.11.20.18

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13432

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.Agent
14.0.0.3238

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.DigiPlug
v2014.09.17.11

McAfee
Socrydo
5600.7005

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.185.642.0

MicroWorld eScan
Trojan.Generic.11738692
15.0.0.972

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.SoftPulse.dfhulg
0.28.2.62151

Norman
Malware
11.20140917

nProtect
Trojan.Generic.11738692
14.09.21.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.09.17.11

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSl.F
14.9.17.8

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Adware.Softpulse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
33120

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.Agent.Win32.12778
2.0.0.1929

File size:
1 MB (1,062,568 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:
7/14/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/15/2015 12:59:59 AM

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:
9/16/2014 5:09:34 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:JmfVKeJeWFhd8I/WH0iXIIfCCbiZpYPab0T0R:oNFdWUiXpfVkptb0TO

Entry address:
0x6607

Entry point:
E8, 11, 2A, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, CC, 8B, 4C, 24, 04, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 74, 24, 8A, 01, 83, C1, 01, 84, C0, 74, 4E, F7, C1, 03, 00, 00, 00, 75, EF, 05, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, A4, 24, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 01, BA, FF, FE, FE, 7E, 03, D0, 83, F0, FF, 33, C2, 83, C1, 04, A9, 00, 01, 01, 81, 74, E8, 8B, 41, FC, 84, C0, 74, 32, 84, E4, 74, 24, A9, 00, 00, FF, 00, 74, 13, A9, 00, 00, 00, FF, 74, 02, EB, CD, 8D, 41, FF, 8B...
 
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Entropy:
7.7843  (probably packed)

Code size:
63 KB (64,512 bytes)

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

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