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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.lpmxp2037.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
368239921b50ef24bbd24046bb1f06fc

SHA-1:
dfe2baef32b73805fffbee5fe4f8a309e249239e

SHA-256:
667a729ac164838a033e3790d1cd4d14c7619aed690c0e3f37bbc3fe49fdc956

Scanner detections:
23 / 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:
5/5/2024 4:04:24 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Bundler.AA
921

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.DomaIQ
2014.07.29

Avira AntiVirus
TR/Dropper.Gen
7.11.30.172

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-S [PUP]
140617-1

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3399

Bitdefender
Application.Bundler.AA
1.0.20.1045

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.SoftPulse.E
19002

Dr.Web
Trojan.Packed.28257
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse (variant)
8.10116

F-Secure
Application.Bundler.AA
11.2014-28-07_2

G Data
Application.Bundler.AA
14.7.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of player_setup.exe (Adware)
2014.9.9.18

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.DigiPlug
t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.180.12763

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.DomaIQ
v2014.07.28.07

McAfee
SoftPulse
5600.7055

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Bundler.AA
15.0.0.627

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Softpulse.dcouet
0.28.2.61148

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.07.28.07

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSL.F
14.7.28.17

Sophos
DomainIQ pay-per install
4.98

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4150696
31208

File size:
1.3 MB (1,385,104 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:
5/25/2014 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/26/2015 7:59:59 PM

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:
7/17/2014 9:22:07 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:h3YD8/uAvukLLfGYudfVHlG6EvJ72DgiB8mdtBA1FYTtkUnO3lOeF:zhzPYlJlG1vJ720iBXzT6F3lOw

Entry address:
0x6736

Entry point:
E8, 74, 43, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, B5, 13, 00, 00, FF, 35, B0, 2E, 47, 00, FF, 15, E4, 40, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 19, E8, 6B, 3B, 00, 00, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, 82, 48, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, 99, 48, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, D9, 48, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, A6, 13, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, E6, C9, C3, 6A, 01, 8D, 45, FC, 50, 8D, 4D, F0, C7, 45, FC, 44, 9D, 46, 00, E8, A8, 2F, 00, 00, 68, 4C, F7, 46, 00, 8D, 45, F0, 50, C7, 45, F0, 3C, 9D...
 
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Entropy:
7.5805

Code size:
74.5 KB (76,288 bytes)

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

http://www.lpmxp2037.com/.../Setup.exe

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