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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 26 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. This program installs potentially unwanted software on your PC at the same time as the software you are trying to install, without adequate consent. The file has been seen being downloaded from www.lpmxp21.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
49b1659c7a97b2060c23f3f600dbdee5

SHA-1:
b2f465208ca28c7efc5afc2ad90e71efdc68a853

SHA-256:
9d810e5f18450bdf3ec094546758a5c11191713757ee512560aff6ec8c2be746

Scanner detections:
26 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Uses the DomainIQ download manager to bundle additional potentially unwanted software without adequate consent.

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:
4/25/2024 6:29:27 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.AY
910

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.OptimizerPro
2014.07.13

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Dropper.Gen
7.11.30.172

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-O [PUP]
2014.9-140809

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3388

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.AY
1.0.20.1105

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.11498531
0.98/19268

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.SoftPulse.HEYS
19130

Dr.Web
Trojan.Packed.28213
9.0.1.0221

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.F potentially unwanted application
8.7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/A-14e3013b
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Application.Bundler.AY
11.2014-09-08_7

G Data
Application.Bundler.AY
14.8.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of player_setup.exe (Adware)
2014.10.9.0

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.DigiPlug
t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.180.12701

Kaspersky
HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
14.0.0.3434

McAfee
Socrydo
5600.7044

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.AY
15.0.0.663

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.MLW.dcgbac
0.28.0.60698

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.08.09.06

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSL.F
14.8.9.5

Sophos
DomainIQ pay-per install
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
Trojan.Inject
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
31088

File size:
1.2 MB (1,210,528 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:
5/26/2014 3:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/27/2015 2:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Adeje, 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:
6B59702469CAA1B8F0FE3A86D94D6266

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
7/11/2014 2:50:40 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:SUyrumsLQIB+JSZ3FuZMGrU0IzoMn4AADw49F:LyrxyBtkZMGo0IzoM4Ayv

Entry address:
0xC4BA

Entry point:
E8, 37, 3B, 00, 00, E9, 39, FE, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 33, CD, E8, 92, C1, FF, FF, E9, DD, FF, FF, FF, 8B, 4D, EC, 33, CD, E8, 83, C1, FF, FF, E9, CE, FF, FF, FF, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53, 56, 57, 89, 28, 8B, E8, A1, 78, 62, 44, 00, 33, C5, 50, FF, 75, FC, C7, 45, FC, FF, FF, FF, FF, 8D, 45, F4, 64, A3, 00, 00, 00, 00, C3, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8D, 44, 24, 0C, 2B, 64, 24, 0C, 53...
 
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Code size:
146 KB (149,504 bytes)

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

http://www.lpmxp21.com/.../Setup.exe

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