Ransomware Research

Chinese Coffee

Chinese Coffee was first discovered in February 2022 in enterprise cloud environments.

Name

Chinese Coffee

 

First Seen

February 2022

Targeting

Behavior of Chinese Coffee

Chinese Coffee is known to target specific file types. Below are all known file types that Chinese Coffee is known to infect.

In some cases, ransomware will update the modified date, when it encrypts files. Chinese Coffee unknown the last modified date of the file it targets.

Details

Characteristics of Chinese Coffee

Suffixes

Some ransomware will change or append a suffix to the end of the file after they are encrypted, including changing the extension of a file. Here are some of the possible suffixes that Chinese Coffee ransomware is known to change.

Suffixes

.coffee

Ransomware Notes

Not all ransomware leaves a note. However, some ransomware leaves the infected party instructions on what the user should do to get rid of the ransomware, or satisfy the ransom. This often involves transferring money, often bitcoin or another cryptocurrency to a designated wallet.

Below are the type(s) of notes, content, and typical locations where Elastio has found ransom notes from Chinese Coffee.

Type

File Name

Location

file

请阅读我.RSA.txt

UserFolders

Executables

These are the names of the executables that contain the undetonated ransomware payload for Chinese Coffee.

Executables

Updater.exe, csrts.exe, updater.exe, Myou.dll

External Pages

Ransomware often links to external pages such as payment pages, telegram contacts, etc. Below are some of the URLs Elastio has found to be associated with Chinese Coffee.

External Pages

  • http://ipfs.cf-ipfs.com/ipns/help.none.sbs/help.pdf
  • https://ipfs.fleek.co/ipns/help.none.sbs/help.pdf
  • http://help.none.sbs.ipns.cf-ipfs.com/help.pdf
  • https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipns/help.none.sbs/help.pdf
  • http://dweb.link/ipns/help.none.sbs/help.pdf
  • https://help.none.sbs.ipns.ipfs.overpi.com/help.pdf

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