Prevx Research Division
"DWM32.EXE"
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Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware groups:
- System Back Door
- Cloaked Malware
File Behavior
DWM32.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Executes a Process
- Injects code into other processes
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- Drops known malicious software during execution
- Uses low level functions to hide itself from the user and from system/security processes
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
DWM32.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Created as a process on disk
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Executed as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename DWM32.EXE was first seen on May 27 2009 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Spain on May 27 2009
- Turkey on Jan 26 2012
- The United States on Jan 26 2012
File Name Aliases
DWM32.EXE can also use the following file names:
- MERE000D.EXE
- 868846.EXE
- 427280.EXE
- 262423.EXE
- 686629.EXE
- 944304.EXE
- 850659.EXE
- 79391115.EXE
- 79804839.EXE
- 27792669.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 618,496 bytes
- 2,027,008 bytes
- 2,493,952 bytes
File Type
The filename DWM32.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
File Activity
One or more files with the name DWM32.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Deletes c:\windows\system32\dwm32.exe
- Creates c:\windows\system32\dwm32.exe
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\application data\Microsof
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\application data\microsoft\Crypt
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\application data\microsoft\crypto\RS
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\application data\microsoft\crypto\rsa\S-1-5-21-2047166233-1200641332-205892280-100
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