setup.exe

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

MD5:
744171f5f65fa9050d86c98c01e8f3c2

SHA-1:
248f9cf6850a58ea457290b930cc909da222f111

SHA-256:
ca55c34b0cd875e5c626896444305d321028463984320a94c2b23d47c6f296ba

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:
6/30/2025 7:52:46 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Softpulse.DigitalPlugin.Bundler (M)
16.2.6.12

File size:
567.4 KB (581,008 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
Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
9/26/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
9/27/2015 1:59:59 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:
7/21/2015 4:48:20 PM

OS version:
5.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
9.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:LJtxXpzNquXxf52Tp48Dskkl/nmXqY7EglxLthdM7W3vDbfv:Ft7JDB52lf3w+XqY7NlZdii3

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
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Packer / compiler:
PECompact v2

Code size:
1.2 MB (1,227,776 bytes)

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

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