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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.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
2cb1618f3afa5e490c4b103323c537a1

SHA-1:
ef1525a21dab05bf1d3bd9734efb3a91d94b94a7

SHA-256:
41f30092d38ca608d39ddd3d9e132c3ac10ecc5d1705ebe9b2181432ebeb943b

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 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:
4/24/2024 5:14:28 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse (M)
16.7.18.2

File size:
1.4 MB (1,501,128 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Digital Plugin SL

Authority:
Symantec Corporation

Valid from:
8/6/2015 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
11/5/2016 5:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=GUIA DE ISORA, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA, OU=Symantec Trust Network, O=Symantec Corporation, C=US

Serial number:
64D481E288350B6CBBECF091BAFA549F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
1/12/2016 10:14:18 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
12.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:cKp3BWA7+H7Rg5N3b/isvq2G2a9W2Z6/94FrkmP4CkyRaOfv:j3B+HtoNbjRncW2Zc4Fo7CkO3

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
B8, 28, 31, 88, 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, 6A, 01, 68, D4, 6A, 00, B8, BC, A4, 76, 17, 00, A0, B3, 32, 02, 4B, 83, 65, FC, 00, C7, 05, 04, 50, 84, 00, C4, 9B, 40, EA, 02, 08, 83, 4D, FC, FF, 68, C0, 6B, 31, EB, CB, 59, 23, 77, 51, B8, 0B, 68, 55, 27, FC, F8, 08, C7, 45, FC, A3, FE, E5, D0, F8, E0, A8, 8E, 3F, AE, 97, 0C, 0C, C7, EA, F8, F1, 38, 9C, 00, 6C, 8B, AD, 19, 01, 20, EE, 06, 24, EB, 50, B9, 28, E4, 84...
 
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Entropy:
7.9308

Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
3.6 MB (3,763,200 bytes)

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

https://tr.im/lxKw9

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