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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. The file has been seen being downloaded from get.desk2opapps.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
a87e8e253a6b72b403b7fd80cbbd9c0c

SHA-1:
bb07ca605e0009f8d2bd3fdf9de921a404d58732

SHA-256:
faa81189e14aba616c0fd183cc43c3840943736ff7322302bcf392c125a8637c

Scanner detections:
26 / 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:
4/23/2024 8:52:32 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.168670
6429376

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.SoftPulse
2015.02.09

Avira AntiVirus
PUA/SoftPulse.oany
7.11.208.204

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-CU [PUP]
2014.9-150208

AVG
Generic
2016.0.3204

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.168670
1.0.20.195

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Softpulse-100
0.98/20045

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.SoftPulse.D
21013

Dr.Web
Trojan.DownLoader12.19495
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.168670
9.0.0.4799

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.S potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/S-7fabd1f0
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.168670
11.2015-08-02_1

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.168670
15.2.25

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.193.14899

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SoftPulse.gen
v2015.02.08.09

McAfee
Program.SoftPulse
16.8.708.2

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.168670
16.0.0.117

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.DriverUpd.dnfzzy
0.30.0.65070

Norman
Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.168670
02.01.2015 13:58:24

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
15.02.08.09

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.Softpulse
15.2.8.21

Sophos
PUA 'SoftPulse' (of type Adware)
5.10

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
36694

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.SoftPulse.Win32.106
2.0.0.2058

File size:
1.3 MB (1,318,424 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:
GoDaddy.com, Inc.

Valid from:
7/2/2014 2:47:28 PM

Valid to:
7/2/2015 2:47:28 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=GUIA DE ISORA, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US

Serial number:
08030F4F595ED0

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/30/2015 8:37:08 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:9k2pxhmobBu75QFgCmOxMT2iq091gutT0ugRfy4CQM4OpdMw:S+rb4ydm3q09n4fuL3b

Entry address:
0x1CE16

Entry point:
E8, AA, 85, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 5D, E9, F9, 1D, 00, 00, 8B, FF, 51, C7, 01, 8C, 3E, 48, 00, E8, 22, 86, 00, 00, 59, C3, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, F1, E8, E3, FF, FF, FF, F6, 45, 08, 01, 74, 07, 56, E8, CC, FF, FF, FF, 59, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 08, 83, C1, 09, 51, 83, C0, 09, 50, E8, DF, 2A, 00, 00, F7, D8, 59, 1B, C0, 59, 40, 5D, C2, 04, 00, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 51, 53, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, C0, 0C, 89, 45, FC, 64, 8B, 1D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 8B, 03, 64...
 
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Code size:
206 KB (210,944 bytes)

The file setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 4 URLs.

http://get.desk2opapps.com/.../Get?p=3005&d=1775&l=1694&n=0&d1=1&clickid=84c8cfc23154c9886b8a93772f7d75c1&d1=-1&d2=-1&d3=-1&d4=-1&d5=-1&filename=setup

http://default-page.com/.../?pid=3005&distid=1775&clickid=84c8cfc23154c9886b8a93772f7d75c1

http://default-page.com/real?pid=3005&distid=1775&clickid=84c8cfc23154c9886b8a93772f7d75c1

http://mpdotrk.com/mt/.../

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