FLVPLAYERSETUP.EXE

Cloaked Malware

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Associated Malware Groups

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

Cloaked Malware
Malicious Software

File Behavior

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

This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
Executes Processes stored in Temporary Folders
This process creates other processes on disk
Executes a Process
The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process

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

Created as a process on disk
Executed as a Process
Deleted as a process from disk
Executed by Internet Explorer

Country Of Origin

The filename FLVPLAYERSETUP.EXE was first seen on Mar 21 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:

Europe on Mar 21 2008
Belgium on May 2 2008
Spain on Aug 27 2008
Italy on Aug 27 2008
The United States on Feb 20 2011
Turkey on May 23 2012

File Name Aliases

FLVPLAYERSETUP.EXE can also use the following file names:

FLVPLAYERSETUP(n).EXE
FLVPLAYER_SETUP.EXE
FLVPLAYERSETUP[1].EXE
UNINSTALL.EXE
FLVPLAYERSETUP (1).EXE
FLVPLAYERSETUP(1).EXE
FLVPLAYERSETUP[n].EXE
V8P8RL5I.EXE
DC439.EXE

Filesizes

The following file size has been seen:

2,567,072 bytes
544,016 bytes
1,218,164 bytes
446,976 bytes
472,576 bytes
1,275,538 bytes

File Type

The filename FLVPLAYERSETUP.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.

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