Possibly Phishing Haircomb Wallet & Using of Stock Image
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[/color][/b]***This is not a scam accusation FOR NOW!***
What happened: Possibly Phishing, Malicious Tools inside Haircomb Wallet. Along with Stealing One Person Team Identity/Picture.
Dev's (Not proven scammer as of now) Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2701336
ANN Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5195815.0
Archive: http://archive.is/wip/mls8X
Website: None
Archive: http://archive.is/nmmGy#msg52875759
Whitepaper: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/natasha-otomoski/haircomb/master/WhyTheCombOfNatashaOtomoskiHas21Teeth.txt
Haircomb Bounty Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5251391
Archive: http://archive.is/wip/3pjFK
Team Member: The Dev who uses "Natasha Otomoski"as alias works alone for his project.
Second most contributor to the ANN thread: kelozar
Stock Image used in ANN thread as Team Member:
Original Picture:
Reference: https://hrexpert.com.au/marketing-2/
Github: https://github.com/natasha-otomoski/haircomb
Archive: http://archive.is/wip/7GF23
Announcement of First releasing of Windows Wallet: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5195815.msg52892009#msg52892009
Archive: http://archive.is/enQZc#msg52892009
First releasing of Windows Wallet on Github: https://github.com/natasha-otomoski/haircomb/commit/7922f6175b22b6a9f410b2586d308764a059be75#diff-48f11ca61784018b735166490c862694
Archive: http://archive.is/wip/Qeosw
I have downloaded the combfullui.exe which she submitted on Oct 27, 2019 a few hours ago and used VirusTotal to see if there is any malicious tool existing in the wallet or not. It showed that someone already checked it out months ago and the result is below.
Reference: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d998e6a3a532e6a099d0a3ba31640526d9eb67dd07714e4b3b63c48227dce54e/detection
It shows that some engines found a couple of viruses of the first version of Haircomb wallet including Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c
which is a very dangerous malicious tool and has been warned by Lafu previously.
Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c
Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c has been considered as one of the most dangerous OS threat.
It usually infect all famous browser by attaching add-ons, plug-ins and other suspicious code.
By modifying browser setting and attacking your browser, it will lead you to the third-party site and start to cause interruption while surfing the web.
Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c will brings lots of serious problems to you.
Encrypts your files , Opens the System backdoor and allow hackers to access PC remotely.Collects victims all sensitive data and send them to the scammers.
Archive: http://archive.is/wip/xmR2I
After a couple of days the dev instructed how to sync Haircomb wallet. I am just quoting the summarize version of original post.
The dev has recently uploaded the latest version of the wallet 0.3.2 for both Windows and Linux.
Github Upload: https://github.com/natasha-otomoski/haircomb
Archive: http://archive.is/7GF23
I've again used VirusTotal to scan the Windows wallet file and found the following result.
Reference: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/fe39f430cb93118326b3417499c77641d6b7e1345573e5dfbbd4681af59c3679/detection
According to Worm.Bereb.i is from the category of Worm.Bereb malicious virus that does the below thing along with other similar virus from Worm.Bereb.
What happened: Possibly Phishing, Malicious Tools inside Haircomb Wallet. Along with Stealing One Person Team Identity/Picture.
Dev's (Not proven scammer as of now) Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2701336
ANN Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5195815.0
Archive: http://archive.is/wip/mls8X
Website: None
Archive: http://archive.is/nmmGy#msg52875759
Whitepaper: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/natasha-otomoski/haircomb/master/WhyTheCombOfNatashaOtomoskiHas21Teeth.txt
Haircomb Bounty Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5251391
Archive: http://archive.is/wip/3pjFK
Team Member: The Dev who uses "Natasha Otomoski"as alias works alone for his project.
Second most contributor to the ANN thread: kelozar
Stock Image used in ANN thread as Team Member:
Original Picture:
Reference: https://hrexpert.com.au/marketing-2/
Github: https://github.com/natasha-otomoski/haircomb
Archive: http://archive.is/wip/7GF23
Announcement of First releasing of Windows Wallet: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5195815.msg52892009#msg52892009
Archive: http://archive.is/enQZc#msg52892009
First releasing of Windows Wallet on Github: https://github.com/natasha-otomoski/haircomb/commit/7922f6175b22b6a9f410b2586d308764a059be75#diff-48f11ca61784018b735166490c862694
Archive: http://archive.is/wip/Qeosw
I have downloaded the combfullui.exe which she submitted on Oct 27, 2019 a few hours ago and used VirusTotal to see if there is any malicious tool existing in the wallet or not. It showed that someone already checked it out months ago and the result is below.
Reference: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d998e6a3a532e6a099d0a3ba31640526d9eb67dd07714e4b3b63c48227dce54e/detection
It shows that some engines found a couple of viruses of the first version of Haircomb wallet including Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c
which is a very dangerous malicious tool and has been warned by Lafu previously.
Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c
Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c has been considered as one of the most dangerous OS threat.
It usually infect all famous browser by attaching add-ons, plug-ins and other suspicious code.
By modifying browser setting and attacking your browser, it will lead you to the third-party site and start to cause interruption while surfing the web.
Trojan.Multi.Generic.4!c will brings lots of serious problems to you.
Encrypts your files , Opens the System backdoor and allow hackers to access PC remotely.Collects victims all sensitive data and send them to the scammers.
After a couple of days the dev instructed how to sync Haircomb wallet. I am just quoting the summarize version of original post.
Syncing guide - windows.
Prerequisites. You should have more than 250GB free disk space. Should have reliable electricity supply, with no planned power loss.
1. Download combfullui.exe from github and place it to it's own folder
2. Download btc.zip (the modified bitcoin qt 0.18.1) and unzip it.
Archive: http://archive.is/BSkqY#msg53030389- Are you expecting a haircomb payment and want to receive it to your own wallet?
- Do you want to pay with your haircombs?
- Do you want to create commits.db file yourself, so that you don't need to trust others to give you the correct file?
- Do you want to monitor people claiming combs in real time?
Prerequisites. You should have more than 250GB free disk space. Should have reliable electricity supply, with no planned power loss.
1. Download combfullui.exe from github and place it to it's own folder
2. Download btc.zip (the modified bitcoin qt 0.18.1) and unzip it.
The dev has recently uploaded the latest version of the wallet 0.3.2 for both Windows and Linux.
Github Upload: https://github.com/natasha-otomoski/haircomb
Archive: http://archive.is/7GF23
I've again used VirusTotal to scan the Windows wallet file and found the following result.
Reference: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/fe39f430cb93118326b3417499c77641d6b7e1345573e5dfbbd4681af59c3679/detection
According to Worm.Bereb.i is from the category of Worm.Bereb malicious virus that does the below thing along with other similar virus from Worm.Bereb.
Quote
This threat tries to use the Windows Autorun function to spread through removable drives, like USB flash drives.
Reference: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=Worm%3AWin32%2FBereb.B&ThreatID=-2147464970