setup.exe

Digital Plugin S.l.

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 S.l has been detected as adware by 28 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin S.l.  (signed and verified)

MD5:
667f6295c642c68414ed70537b2451cd

SHA-1:
fd48ed063737e12ca46a3b08bf16c059d33ffb75

SHA-256:
13878f37d42312a6a567b0e7061b8e34965fe1bb2322c40b3c135a389723c059

Scanner detections:
28 / 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:
4/19/2024 5:15:16 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.62516
856

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.Downloader
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
Adware/Softpulse.djcr.8
7.11.176.28

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-AH [PUP]
140929-0

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3334

Bitdefender
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.62516
1.0.20.1375

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Adware.Agent-9474
0.98/19469

Comodo Security
Application.Win32.SoftPulse.J
19681

Dr.Web
Trojan.Packed.28579
9.0.1.05190

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.62516
14.10.02

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.J potentially unwanted application
7.0.302.0

F-Prot
W32/A-0b77e0af
v6.4.7.1.166

F-Secure
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.62516
11.2014-02-10_5

G Data
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.62516
14.10.24

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.SoftPulse
t3scan.1.7.8.0

K7 AntiVirus
Unwanted-Program
13.183.13550

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Agent
15.0.0.494

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.DomaIQ
v2014.10.02.07

McAfee
Socrydo
5600.6990

MicroWorld eScan
Gen:Variant.Adware.Strictor.62516
15.0.0.825

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.Agent.deikti
0.28.2.62440

nProtect
Trojan-Clicker/W32.Agent.2730728
14.10.02.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.10.02.07

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSl.F
14.10.2.6

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Adware.Softpulse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
33520

Zillya! Antivirus
Adware.Agent.Win32.11842
2.0.0.1940

File size:
2.6 MB (2,730,728 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\setup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
7/14/2014 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
7/15/2015 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin S.l., O=Digital Plugin S.l., L=Guia de Isora, 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:
229111B20CCF13394E8E6CA9EAB4121F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
8/27/2014 8:29:59 AM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
49152:rqqOL6nGTTuI8AG5v+lhJNp11+H2RotvGZpRwg0VcTimloqN2IfEX0tq3:rqqVGvI8lhjpLTRoJ2RbZTimmRX0tq3

Entry address:
0x6100

Entry point:
E8, 5F, 20, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, 55, 8B, EC, 8B, 45, 0C, 83, EC, 20, 56, 57, 6A, 08, 59, BE, 10, 20, 41, 00, 8D, 7D, E0, F3, A5, 8B, 4D, 08, 5F, 5E, 85, C0, 74, 0D, F6, 00, 10, 74, 08, 8B, 01, 8B, 40, FC, 8B, 40, 18, 89, 4D, F8, 89, 45, FC, 85, C0, 74, 0C, F6, 00, 08, 74, 07, C7, 45, F4, 00, 40, 99, 01, 8D, 45, F4, 50, FF, 75, F0, FF, 75, E4, FF, 75, E0, FF, 15, B4, 10, 41, 00, C9, C2, 08, 00, 8B, 4D, F4, 64, 89, 0D, 00, 00, 00, 00, 59, 5F, 5F, 5E, 5B, 8B, E5, 5D, 51, C3, 8B, 4D, F0, 33, CD, E8, 38...
 
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Entropy:
7.8708  (probably packed)

Code size:
63 KB (64,512 bytes)

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