What is caps-min.exe?

caps-min.exe is usually located in the 'c:\downloads\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected caps-min.exe.

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VirusTotal report

25 of the 71 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the caps-min.exe file. That's a 35% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Trojan.GenericKD.6004700
AegisLab	Trojan.Win32.Generic.4!c
AhnLab-V3	Trojan/Win32.Dloader.C2352308
Alibaba	Trojan:Application/DLOADER.7100e78c
ALYac	Trojan.GenericKD.6004700
APEX	Malicious
Arcabit	Trojan.Generic.D5B9FDC
BitDefender	Trojan.GenericKD.6004700
Cybereason	malicious.717083
Cylance	Unsafe
eGambit	Unsafe.AI_Score_50%
Emsisoft	Trojan.GenericKD.6004700 (B)
FireEye	Trojan.GenericKD.6004700
Fortinet	W32/Dloader.IRQ!tr
GData	Trojan.GenericKD.6004700
MAX	malware (ai score=95)
McAfee	Artemis!A28E03971708
McAfee-GW-Edition	Artemis!Trojan
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.GenericKD.6004700
Paloalto	generic.ml
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
Symantec	ML.Attribute.HighConfidence
Trapmine	malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro	TROJ_DLOADER.IRQ
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_DLOADER.IRQ

Sandbox Report

The following information was gathered by executing the file inside Cuckoo Sandbox.

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Users\\cuck\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\ffa38172233ce02fee7b499518c7edc09d0a9d7c0e5e53be930be2e7ea3ee00a.bin",
        "process_name": "ffa38172233ce02fee7b499518c7edc09d0a9d7c0e5e53be930be2e7ea3ee00a.bin",
        "pid": 2816,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1566161585.6406,
        "ppid": 2016
    },
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1566161585.3594,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

[
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Creates a windows hook that monitors keyboard input (keylogger)",
        "severity": 3,
        "marks": [
            {
                "call": {
                    "category": "system",
                    "status": 1,
                    "stacktrace": [],
                    "api": "SetWindowsHookExA",
                    "return_value": 2228635,
                    "arguments": {
                        "thread_identifier": 0,
                        "callback_function": "0x004012eb",
                        "module_address": "0x00400000",
                        "hook_identifier": 13
                    },
                    "time": 1566161585.7186,
                    "tid": 2420,
                    "flags": {
                        "hook_identifier": "WH_KEYBOARD_LL"
                    }
                },
                "pid": 2816,
                "type": "call",
                "cid": 2
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "infostealer_keylogger"
    }
]

Yara

The Yara rules did not detect anything in the file.

Network

{
    "tls": [],
    "udp": [
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 546,
            "time": 3.0785028934479,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 5226,
            "time": 9.0796699523926,
            "dport": 138,
            "sport": 138
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7070,
            "time": 3.0189790725708,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7398,
            "time": 1.0177628993988,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 7726,
            "time": 3.0284578800201,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8054,
            "time": 1.5187659263611,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 8382,
            "time": -0.090704917907715,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 8710,
            "time": 1.54678606987,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 28120,
            "time": 1.0509910583496,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 36504,
            "time": 3.1095099449158,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
        }
    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "0c91f67da89d27543492c24b7fb3a3f45581e5f6464668bb5222b30ea9714222",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "fb6605fb18c66a1624a371065c36b20378e9ece9cb7bdbf267e6ed6829d9bcda",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

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caps-min.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove caps-min.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the caps-min.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that caps-min.exe has been successfully removed. Here are the removal instructions in more detail:

1. Download and install FreeFixer: http://www.freefixer.com/download.html
2. Start FreeFixer and press the Start Scan button. The scan will finish in approximately five minutes.

   
3. When the scan is finished, locate caps-min.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the caps-min.exe file. Do not check any other file for removal unless you are 100% sure you want to delete it. Tip: Press CTRL-F to open up FreeFixer's search dialog to quickly locate caps-min.exe in the scan result.

   

   

   c:\downloads\caps-min.exe

   
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the caps-min.exe file.

   
5. Restart your computer.
6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If caps-min.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If caps-min.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
7. If caps-min.exe still remains in the scan result, check its checkbox again in the scan result and click Fix.
8. Restart your computer.
9. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. Verify that caps-min.exe no longer appear in the scan result.

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