NIVIPXIKL.SYS

Rootkit

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Associated Malware Groups

The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:

Rootkit

File Behavior

NIVIPXIKL.SYS has been seen to perform the following behavior:

Uses low level functions to hide itself from the user and from system/security processes

NIVIPXIKL.SYS has been the subject of the following behavior:

Created as a new Background Service on the machine
Created as a process on disk

Country Of Origin

The filename NIVIPXIKL.SYS was first seen on Apr 11 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:

The United States on Apr 11 2008
France on Apr 11 2008
Uruguay on Apr 28 2008
Turkey on Jan 20 2009
Taiwan on Jun 7 2010

Filesizes

The following file size has been seen:

11,872 bytes
11,360 bytes
12,064 bytes
11,552 bytes

File Type

The filename NIVIPXIKL.SYS is used by multiple object types including objects,Dynamic Link LIbraries.

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