File Investigation Report
SKYNET.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:
- Worm
File Behavior
SKYNET.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- This process creates other processes on disk
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- This Process Contains User Mode Rootkit Functionality and can hide itself from the running process list
SKYNET.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a new Background Service on the machine
- Created as a process on disk
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Executed as a Process
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
Country Of Origin
The filename SKYNET.EXE was first seen on Jun 16 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Prevx community:
- HUNGARY on Jun 16 2007
- BELARUS on Jun 16 2007
- SPAIN on Aug 31 2007
- LITHUANIA on Mar 19 2008
- The UNITED STATES on Dec 1 2008
- BANGLADESH on Dec 22 2008
- The EUROPEAN UNION on Nov 6 2009
File Name Aliases
SKYNET.EXE can also use the following file names:
- SALARY.EXE
- FIX_SVCHOST.EXE
- SALARY 2008.EXE
- SALARY 2007.EXE
- SALARY 2004.EXE
- SALARY 2006.EXE
- SALARY2005.EXE
- SALARY 2009.EXE
- SMALL.EXE
- SMALL SALARY 2009.EXE
- EXPLORER.EXE
- WINNT.COM
- SVCHOST.EXE
- NEW FOLDER.EXE
- SERVICE CHARGE.EXE
- GRIM.EXE
- À¹€À¸•À¸£À¸µÀ¸¢À¸¡PRINT.EXE
- RECYCLER.EXE
- FURNITURE.EXE
- À¹€À¸À¹‡À¸™À¹„À¸§À¸£À¸À¸™À¹€À¸¡À¹‰À¸™À¸—À¹Œ.EXE
- WIN32RUNNER.EXE
- GR.EXE
- 76437671.EXE
- 07396639.EXE
- 77327905.EXE
- 37612317.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 40,960 bytes
- 95,801 bytes
- 532,480 bytes
- 85,578 bytes
- 2,998,272 bytes
- 94,208 bytes
- 319,488 bytes
File Type
The filename SKYNET.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
File Activity
One or more files with the name SKYNET.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Creates c:\windows\system32\SkyNet.exe
- Creates c:\windows\system32\win32runner.exe
- Creates a:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates a:\Autorun.inf
- Creates b:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates b:\Autorun.inf
- Creates c:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates c:\Autorun.inf
- Creates d:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates d:\Autorun.inf
- Creates e:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates e:\Autorun.inf
- Creates f:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates f:\Autorun.inf
- Creates g:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates g:\Autorun.inf
- Creates h:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates h:\Autorun.inf
- Creates i:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates i:\Autorun.inf
- Creates j:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates j:\Autorun.inf
- Creates k:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates k:\Autorun.inf
- Creates l:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates l:\Autorun.inf
- Creates m:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates m:\Autorun.inf
- Creates n:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates n:\Autorun.inf
- Creates o:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates o:\Autorun.inf
- Creates p:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates p:\Autorun.inf
- Creates q:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates q:\Autorun.inf
- Creates r:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates r:\Autorun.inf
- Creates s:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates s:\Autorun.inf
- Creates t:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates t:\Autorun.inf
- Creates u:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates u:\Autorun.inf
- Creates v:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates v:\Autorun.inf
- Creates w:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates w:\Autorun.inf
- Creates x:\SkyNet.exe
- Creates x:\Autorun.inf
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