Office Trial Extender.exe

Office Trial Extender

Jonas Zimmermann

The application Office Trial Extender.exe by Jonas Zimmermann has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This file is typically installed with the program Office Trial Extender by pXc-coding.com. While running, it connects to the Internet address smokey.speakuhb0x.org on port 80 using the HTTP protocol.
Publisher:
pXc-coding.com  (signed by Jonas Zimmermann)

Product:
Office Trial Extender

Version:
1.0.0.7

MD5:
b43cd294987a34a3b78e78aee8418fbe

SHA-1:
f7fe30dc5ecc71a933faf5498539bf8b6d95f98a

SHA-256:
81a2120b2a8e8a385624af2cae877a76bb5c7de1704accdbac5bd6fe1fb52041

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

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.

Analysis date:
11/27/2024 1:13:43 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.JonasZimmermann.V
14.7.27.14

File size:
98.6 KB (100,952 bytes)

Product version:
1.0.0.7

Copyright:
Copyright © pXc-coding.com

Original file name:
Office Trial Extender.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
Language Neutral

Common path:
C:\Program Files\office trial extender\office trial extender.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
COMODO CA Limited

Valid from:
3/14/2013 1:00:00 AM

Valid to:
3/15/2014 12:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Jonas Zimmermann, O=Jonas Zimmermann, STREET=Bellmannskamp 16, L=Lüneburg, S=Niedersachsen, PostalCode=21339, C=DE

Issuer:
CN=COMODO Code Signing CA 2, O=COMODO CA Limited, L=Salford, S=Greater Manchester, C=GB

Serial number:
0097B0E4EDFB699A04297A473C70575E9F

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
3/19/2013 8:20:19 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

.NET CLR dependent:
Yes

CTPH (ssdeep):
1536:3gMw3VTzgdtVCZ9taR4EzA9AZHkGfugMw3VTzgdtVCZ9taFhEftS6:OVXgdtoZXvwA9uEyLVXgdtoZXxfc6

Entry address:
0x1069E

Entry point:
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[+]

Entropy:
6.0160

Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET

Code size:
58 KB (59,392 bytes)

The file Office Trial Extender.exe has been discovered within the following program.

Office Trial Extender  by pXc-coding.com
Publisher's description - “Microsoft Office 2010 and 2013 need to be activated after 30 days. They can be rearmed 5 times, every rearm gives you additionally 30 days to activate / evaluate the product.”
pxc-coding.com/portfolio/office-trial-extender
About 18% of users remove it
 
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The executing file has been seen to make the following network communication in live environments.

TCP (HTTP):
Connects to smokey.speakuhb0x.org  (205.185.118.178:80)

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