WEBHANCER.EXE, Prevx

Associated Malware Groups

The filename is associated with the malware group:

Spyware

File Behavior

WEBHANCER.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:

Executes Processes stored in Temporary Folders
This process creates other processes on disk
Executes a Process
This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
Creates system tray popups, messages, errors and security warnings

WEBHANCER.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:

Executed as a Process
Created as a process on disk
Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
Created by processes which appear to be checking for interception by security products

Country Of Origin

The filename WEBHANCER.EXE was first seen on Jul 4 2007 in the following geographical region of the Webroot community:

South Africa on Jul 4 2007

Filesizes

The following file size has been seen:

396,288 bytes
264,368 bytes

File Type

The filename WEBHANCER.EXE is used by multiple object types including self extracting compressed files,executable programs.

File Activity

One or more files with the name WEBHANCER.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:

create folder C:\Program Files\webHancer
create folder C:\Program Files\webHancer\Programs
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET15.tmp
Copies filec:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\rarsfx0\license.txt to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET15.tmp
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\license.txt
Moves c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET15.tmp to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\license.txt
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET18.tmp
Copies filec:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\rarsfx0\readme.txt to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET18.tmp
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\readme.txt
Moves c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET18.tmp to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\readme.txt
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET1D.tmp
Moves c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\rarsfx0\sporder.dll to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET1D.tmp
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\sporder.dll
Moves c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET1D.tmp to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\sporder.dll
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET21.tmp
Moves c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\rarsfx0\whagent.exe to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET21.tmp
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\whagent.exe
Moves c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET21.tmp to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\whagent.exe
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET25.tmp
Moves c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\rarsfx0\whiehlpr.dll to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET25.tmp
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\whiehlpr.dll
Moves c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET25.tmp to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\whiehlpr.dll
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET29.tmp
Moves c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\rarsfx0\webhdll.dll to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET29.tmp
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\webhdll.dll
Moves c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET29.tmp to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\webhdll.dll
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET2D.tmp
Moves c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\rarsfx0\whinstaller.exe to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET2D.tmp
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\whinstaller.exe
Moves c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET2D.tmp to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\whinstaller.exe
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET31.tmp
Copies filec:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\rarsfx0\whagent.ini to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET31.tmp
Deletes c:\program files\webhancer\programs\whagent.ini
Moves c:\program files\webhancer\programs\SET31.tmp to c:\program files\webhancer\programs\whagent.ini
Opens/modifes c:\autoexec.bat

Website Activity

One or more files with the name WEBHANCER.EXE interacts with the following web sites and pages. Web addresses have been deliberately modified to prevent unintentional use.

Remote server connection to prime .webhancer .co
Port 80 IP:199.243.163.114

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