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Coffee and Comfort Apps, LLC

This is part of an adware program designed to inject advertising in the web browser (banners, text-links) as well as modify the normal behavior of the browser as well as modify the computer’s system settings that control applications to run on startup. Part of the Injekt brand of unwanted programs. The module helper.dll by Coffee and Comfort Apps has been detected as adware by 13 anti-malware scanners. According to AVG, this software downloads additional adware offers during setup. It is also typically executed from the user's temporary directory.
Publisher:
Coffee and Comfort Apps, LLC  (signed and verified)

MD5:
916c3d30e8574ea9105427127b7bf360

SHA-1:
3a93219240444eb70a54432cebb737145e45bd8a

SHA-256:
b26fcf5ee260a036a79756c536e0cf206f7b426622b58466c1d8cca3e9f94d57

Scanner detections:
13 / 68

Status:
Adware

Explanation:
Injects display ads (banner ads), in-text ads, interstitial ads, or other types of ads in the web browser as well as alters the browsers settings (home page, search, DNS, and security protocols).

Analysis date:
4/25/2024 4:54:45 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Agnitum Outpost
PUA.PullUpdate
7.1.1

Avira AntiVirus
ADWARE/Adware.Gen
7.11.169.82

AVG
Downloader
2015.0.3360

Comodo Security
ApplicUnwnt
19320

ESET NOD32
MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate (variant)
8.10317

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/PullUpdate
9/5/2014

IKARUS anti.virus
PUA.Downloader
t3scan.1.7.5.0

McAfee
Artemis!916C3D30E857
5600.7016

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.Graftor.dawets
0.28.2.61861

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Trojan.Adware.988
1.0.0.1015

Reason Heuristics
PUP.CoffeeandComfortApps.G
14.9.5.18

Trend Micro House Call
TROJ_GEN.F47V0602
7.2.248

VIPRE Antivirus
MSIL.Adware.PullUpdate
32560

File size:
1.2 MB (1,308,536 bytes)

File type:
Dynamic link library (Win32 DLL)

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\appdata\local\temp\{random}.tmp\helper.dll

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Coffee and Comfort Apps, LLC

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
3/22/2014 7:00:00 PM

Valid to:
6/22/2015 6:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN="Coffee and Comfort Apps, LLC", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Coffee and Comfort Apps, LLC", L=Grandville, S=Michigan, C=US

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:
5E98B9455BCE81019FFCAF7FB2161D8B

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/2/2014 2:02:11 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:iNnM+pjPr4TWu59Lq5Wvkcu0cTtApIJJBMU8EgwarYz0EbGcTBFV1LQv:iOYPrfu59Lq5Wvkc0xJb8EgVrYz0ExTC

Entry address:
0xD3C5D

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 83, 7D, 0C, 01, 75, 05, E8, 17, DD, 00, 00, FF, 75, 10, FF, 75, 0C, FF, 75, 08, E8, 07, 00, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, 5D, C2, 0C, 00, 6A, 0C, 68, D8, D1, 11, 10, E8, 64, 6A, 00, 00, 33, C0, 40, 8B, 75, 0C, 85, F6, 75, 0C, 39, 35, 58, DF, 12, 10, 0F, 84, E4, 00, 00, 00, 83, 65, FC, 00, 83, FE, 01, 74, 05, 83, FE, 02, 75, 35, 8B, 0D, 50, 23, 10, 10, 85, C9, 74, 0C, FF, 75, 10, 56, FF, 75, 08, FF, D1, 89, 45, E4, 85, C0, 0F, 84, B1, 00, 00, 00, FF, 75, 10, 56, FF, 75, 08, E8, 11, FE, FF, FF, 89, 45, E4...
 
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Entropy:
6.5911

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
1016.5 KB (1,040,896 bytes)

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