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SWFTEXT.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Malicious Software
- Worm
File Behavior
SWFTEXT.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
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- 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
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Adds products to the system registry
- The Process is polymorphic and can change its structure
SWFTEXT.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed from Temporary Folders
- Executed as a Process
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
- Deleted as a process from disk
Country Of Origin
The filename SWFTEXT.EXE was first seen on Jun 8 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Romania on Jun 8 2007
- Spain on Jun 8 2007
- Europe on Aug 26 2007
- Bulgaria on Oct 22 2007
- The United Arab Emirates on May 17 2009
- Lebanon on May 17 2009
File Name Aliases
SWFTEXT.EXE can also use the following file names:
- SWFTEXT[1].EXE
- SWFTEXT.V1.3/CRACK/SWFTEXT.EXE
- NERABF43694.EXE
- SWFTEXT FASH.EXE
- SWFTEXT PORTABLE.EXE
- PORTABLE_SWFTEXT_V.1.3.EXE
- PORTABLE SWFTEXT V.1.3.EXE
- 1SWFTEXT.EXE
- 24201161.EXE
- 13898341.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 1,699,840 bytes
- 2,230,995 bytes
- 787,968 bytes
- 1,907,200 bytes
- 736,768 bytes
- 1,925,938 bytes
File Type
The filename SWFTEXT.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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