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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 admin.obtainmagno.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
cc07b07198e4febb1806238514317f5d

SHA-1:
c65fbeeef6cd9716a94b5925840ca8ae164d5a2a

SHA-256:
49aaeaf2086740345e89b0c38b537808625377522cabf4ec426c32072014684b

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:
5/28/2024 1:33:21 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalP.Bundler (M)
16.6.25.22

File size:
567.3 KB (580,936 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\inetcache\ie\{random}\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/26/2014 5:30:00 AM

Valid to:
9/27/2015 5:29:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Guia de Isora, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
63B78976E4F16AA4AC250388162DD349

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/12/2015 2:40:35 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:E1khEYGha2bqs/zdSPe5h8yaoTmXAdyBmzErRcNW+6y7vkKn:E1gr2n/zdSzGTmw8ozWr+6E8Kn

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 48, FD, 5C, 00, 50, 64, FF, 35, 00, 00, 00, 00, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 33, C0, 89, 08, 50, 45, 43, 6F, 6D, 70, 61, 63, 74, 32, 00, 0A, 54, E6, 2B, 19, 27, 7C, 0A, C0, 66, 4E, 8A, 35, 05, 5F, 48, EB, D8, 87, 74, 62, 2E, 07, AB, CF, 46, 98, F9, A7, E7, 81, 57, BC, 6D, E1, D2, 86, 21, D4, 5D, 2E, 66, EB, 05, C6, D0, 83, B7, DE, 83, 1B, 00, 5E, 20, 6C, 2F, F8, F2, C7, CC, 94, 16, 19, 51, 80, B6, 79, 86, 7D, 7F, DD, F3, A5, D0, 1A, 31, 8C, 02, 57, 45, CC, 75, 5E, A5, 57, 97, DB, 14, 30, B9, 13, 8D, F7...
 
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Entropy:
7.9532

Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,253,376 bytes)

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

http://admin.obtainmagno.com/x-CC8cB6Mnyu9EhHp66YcnF-cFXrmqH3Zz4LxlnfT0rNE9ny6rhsk3HASxM2ZIzaMwLN97gHcFzkTCGQcfEajSESPKqXVxp_mRjaTXBaRJvdnZnOERq63oTKg4cw__wptUWYWOHL6ZKbLfMkuNFi9RYTFb-oe0UF58_oiypDd7fdqCOAj2Y1HfPj_m6ldgkZbCrMzbFsMVnRqhQDkqrS7KIijlJdO5mKyUsO1qIkY-8OlYBh8DhqCHyizlokzqvTtgoOvPJLUS3zs1Dtcxhmv3MdhsE9UGATGPY7Sm12Fo8PdfCLQ_GUu6mukBJc9szLcS7CvHW4LwVbWNMJtE2H1KmOvKvwXURvEnOSN9kcvLxb1Fwb4yiOuTbWvP3sBTgj

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