Prevx Research Division
COMMON.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Targeted Information Stealer
- Information Stealer
- Malicious Software
- Worm
File Behavior
COMMON.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Executes Processes stored in Temporary Folders
- Executes a Process
- Creates system tray popups, messages, errors and security warnings
- The Process is polymorphic and can change its structure
- Drops known malicious software during execution
COMMON.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
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
Country Of Origin
The filename COMMON.EXE was first seen on Apr 14 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Germany on Apr 14 2008
- on Apr 30 2008
- Canada on Apr 30 2008
- Spain on Jun 6 2009
- The United States on Nov 13 2009
- Singapore on Nov 13 2009
- India on Dec 30 2009
- Australia on Apr 1 2011
- Thailand on Apr 1 2011
File Name Aliases
COMMON.EXE can also use the following file names:
- BHATT SIR.EXE
- ANAND.EXE
- CERTIFICATES.EXE
- CRLS.EXE
- CTLS.EXE
- SYMANTEC SHARED.EXE
- ROXIO SHARED.EXE
- SPEECHENGINES.EXE
- SAR_HTML_9.EXE
- SONIC SHARED.EXE
- DLLSHARED.EXE
- SERVICES.EXE
- SYSTEM.EXE
- LOGS.EXE
- MIB.EXE
- PLAY_FILE.EXE
- PLAY_FILE (1).EXE
- COMMON[1].EXE
- CODT0000.EXE
- UNINSTALLERDATA.EXE
- PROGRAMS.EXE
- APPLICATION DATA.EXE
- CYBERLINK.EXE
- WINDOWS GENUINE ADVANTAGE.EXE
- MICROSOFT SHARED.EXE
- FLEXI EDGE BTS MANAGERS.EXE
- VERSION 1.1 BUILD 0050.EXE
- COMMUNICATIONS.EXE
- ENTERTAINMENT.EXE
- SYSTEM TOOLS.EXE
- NOKIA APPLICATIONS.EXE
- NOKIA DOCUMENTATION.EXE
- NOKIA PC SUITE.EXE
- MUI.EXE
- 10.EXE
- 6E.TMP
- 4B.TMP
- OV.EXE
- 041D.EXE
- 1046.EXE
- 89500494.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 84,480 bytes
- 565,248 bytes
- 593,920 bytes
- 27,624,574 bytes
- 85,504 bytes
- 279,365 bytes
- 1,637,210 bytes
- 417,280 bytes
- 101,230 bytes
File Type
The filename COMMON.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
File Activity
One or more files with the name COMMON.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\7zipsfx.000\Eula.txt
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\7zipsfx.000\SysInt.inf
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\7zipsfx.000\Eula.txt
- Copies filec:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\7zipsfx.000\SysInt.inf to c:\windows\inf\SysInt.inf
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\7zipsfx.000\SysInt.inf
- create folder C:\Program Files\SysInternals
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