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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 23 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.lpmxp23.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
fd3743f4a2d9b70f1e18948e1122e29f

SHA-1:
c229ad9c5adfad33e751ca231bdac5eb33071df3

SHA-256:
a532caea4968a195121cef228a57438093f8a884798c635b8e0cf405ed8ea6d2

Scanner detections:
23 / 68

Status:
Adware

Description:
This is an installer which may bundle legitimate applications with offers for additional 3rd-party applications that may be unwanted by the user. While the installer contains an 'opt-out' feature this is not set be defult and is usually overlooked.

Analysis date:
4/16/2024 9:12:45 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.5
959

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

avast!
Win32:Adware-BRD [PUP]
140617-1

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3446

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.5
1.0.20.860

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.Softpulse.A
18505

Dr.Web
Trojan.Packed.26956
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.B potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler
11.2014-21-06_7

G Data
Win32.Application.SoftPulse
14.6.24

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.Generic
t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.180.12484

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.Agent
14.0.0.3725

McAfee
PUP-FIG!80B7D2700B25
5600.7102

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.5
15.0.0.516

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.MLW.dbbdly
0.28.0.60253

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.06.12.12

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSL.F
14.6.12.9

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.SoftPulse!6.197F
23.00.65.14610

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
suspected of Trojan.Downloader.gen.h
3.12.26.0

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
30086

Zillya! Antivirus
Downloader.Agent.Win32.187484
2.0.0.1833

File size:
790 KB (808,968 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:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
5/23/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/24/2015 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, STREET=Calle el Pozo 17B, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, PostalCode=38670, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
00C30222BF83B5AE2CB666E51380D11646

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
5/29/2014 11:55:06 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:5a3LEO+TPVMg+Ukjize2tWoQZEeYrmGxB7YpaLd6+R1sPDaYyo68:5a3L8eg+UkjCoRZuB7YcvsK8

Entry address:
0x4D4B9

Entry point:
E8, ED, 7A, 00, 00, E9, 79, FE, FF, FF, 8B, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 56, 8B, 75, 14, 57, 33, FF, 3B, F7, 75, 04, 33, C0, EB, 65, 39, 7D, 08, 75, 1B, E8, 40, 36, 00, 00, 6A, 16, 5E, 89, 30, 57, 57, 57, 57, 57, E8, D2, 0C, 00, 00, 83, C4, 14, 8B, C6, EB, 45, 39, 7D, 10, 74, 16, 39, 75, 0C, 72, 11, 56, FF, 75, 10, FF, 75, 08, E8, 93, 12, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, EB, C1, FF, 75, 0C, 57, FF, 75, 08, E8, B2, 06, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, 39, 7D, 10, 74, B6, 39, 75, 0C, 73, 0E, E8, F1, 35, 00, 00, 6A, 22, 59, 89, 08, 8B, F1, EB, AD...
 
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Code size:
454.5 KB (465,408 bytes)

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

http://www.lpmxp23.com/.../Setup.exe

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