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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 www.lpmxp24.com.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
222db21af13f3876841dbf86b57aa0cf

SHA-1:
f7303721a38d78ee1657964f0bf7b087a80fd863

SHA-256:
ae6c25ff186f8ed407780b963221b4bd302a458a15a34949a6570bb180e622a2

Scanner detections:
26 / 68

Status:
Adware

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:
5/6/2024 8:25:35 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Generic.648150
915

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.DomaIQ
2014.08.04

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Downloader.Gen
7.11.165.22

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

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3393

Bitdefender
Application.Generic.648150
1.0.20.1075

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Application-495
0.98/19246

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.Softpulse.A
18485

Dr.Web
Adware.Downware.6060
9.0.1.05190

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.B potentially unwanted application
8.7.0.302.0

F-Secure
Application.Generic.648150
11.2014-03-08_1

G Data
Win32.Application.SoftPulse
14.8.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
variant of setup(2).exe (Adware)
2014.9.12.0

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.DigiPlug
t3scan.1.6.1.0

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.182.12926

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.Installcore
v2014.08.03.10

McAfee
PUP-FIG!E579F1BB585D
5600.7049

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Generic.648150
15.0.0.645

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Agent.dbmimq
0.28.2.61148

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.08.03.10

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSL.F
14.8.3.20

Rising Antivirus
PE:Malware.SoftPulse!6.197F
23.00.65.14801

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

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

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
30086

File size:
808.9 KB (828,336 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:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/25/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
5/26/2015 6:59:59 PM

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

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

Serial number:
4DFD897866A8F5930B794CCCDAA3E5A1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/3/2014 10:09:31 AM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:fHAVdbgYZFkLri0InZF1o2Bd9aFtry9rK1u3sPDaYskpR3rU:fH1AFx0Ild9aFtrmrKgY7rU

Entry address:
0x4E119

Entry point:
E8, EA, 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, D2, 37, 00, 00, 6A, 16, 5E, 89, 30, 57, 57, 57, 57, 57, E8, CD, 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, 23, 14, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, EB, C1, FF, 75, 0C, 57, FF, 75, 08, E8, A2, 0A, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, 39, 7D, 10, 74, B6, 39, 75, 0C, 73, 0E, E8, 83, 37, 00, 00, 6A, 22, 59, 89, 08, 8B, F1, EB, AD...
 
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Entropy:
6.3063

Code size:
464.5 KB (475,648 bytes)

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

http://www.lpmxp24.com/.../Setup.exe

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