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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 az842691.vo.msecnd.net.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
ef3d4aa5bfad1256da204bc3ae68d48b

SHA-1:
acd31fbe0b343f487206c81fea0dd800f8b8966a

SHA-256:
8b660d3b90bb058b3cab4db728c43dca69c47462e785a71d095b83ff3ea4f0fa

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:
5/30/2024 1:23:52 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.1.17.19

File size:
674.9 KB (691,088 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:
Symantec Corporation

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

Valid to:
11/6/2016 7:59:59 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:
12/30/2015 5:08:49 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:4s9eJNhvHIzi0SRHxmVUOXem8MXv4LnroIEf/bWjD5bCETr+CAImjCcj04PYV:4s9eJTyil8UOX9xXv4von/KhbjTzAYV

Entry address:
0x1A5E70

Entry point:
60, BE, 00, 80, 50, 00, 8D, BE, 00, 90, EF, FF, 57, 83, CD, FF, EB, 10, 90, 90, 90, 90, 90, 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...
 
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Entropy:
7.8656

Packer / compiler:
UPX 2.90LZMA

Code size:
636 KB (651,264 bytes)

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

http://az842691.vo.msecnd.net/MTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEyMzQ1NjwIDFBgQ4dR3ewz2AA4rIzbA_7qs-E55nIbPKYU1ThQ9FyfsZmwmsRERq9Rs2zz7lOflYNQKxONYUb5UOVc-rN6gEZwbhLlcJ84poUeBoxQMKeynKc2HbgJF590OIGKbuqVp_MJlT5kENqKcyqbaTVJHOG5ipPukH0qz0XLCMWDK007dZ3wELBCm4yW6002ROKRMELuSV4SI-xfrXVVXaqvnLUVIl0fy7Co11tqhsZHRVGIM3GWLq3AWyep9LfREFB2JxltGb_M0uceSSsyxxS9Fr0gqA9RWO--9cQcHVKx6Z5wqQYf1TNEVqMTTE7MMmcWMQ1EtIgoOxPFuh8yXfB1pTYAtJ8nemgqvchmawqjXQHsHFPdfzbE-FnH1ZNvGorM2IzvsQk3vsN4WMt0OWCjIT6KeVWxd5G2I9riSAXHsFe943hUM1GMFidRAXSpkpIjD0ZhNYqVRfjOhw334g0=

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