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RESTART.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Fraudulent Security Program
- Cloaked Malware
File Behavior
RESTART.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- The Process is polymorphic and can change its structure
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Executes a Process
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Creates new folders on the system
- Injects code into other processes
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Adds products to the system registry
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Executes Processes stored in Temporary Folders
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
RESTART.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
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
- Created as a new Background Service on the machine
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Executed from Temporary Folders
- Terminated as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename RESTART.EXE was first seen on May 17 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- The United States on May 17 2007
- Israel on May 17 2007
- Netherlands on May 19 2007
- Russian Federation on Sep 27 2007
- Moldova, Republic of on Sep 27 2007
- Poland on May 3 2010
- The United Kingdom on Nov 21 2010
- Germany on May 23 2012
File Name Aliases
RESTART.EXE can also use the following file names:
- BWGO00032396.EXE
- BWGO0001AD13.EXE
- BWGO0001B0DC.EXE
- BWGO00010A3C.EXE
- BWGO00010867.EXE
- BWGO0001439B.EXE
- BWGO0003473B.EXE
- BWGO00E066A7.EXE
- BWGO01BC2FEA.EXE
- BWGO001C1516.EXE
- BWGO003769AB.EXE
- BWGO020FC408.EXE
- BWGO000FD6B0.EXE
- BWGO0005D384.EXE
- BWGO00093702.EXE
- BWGO005BCBE0.EXE
- BWGO0006BA69.EXE
- BWGO0006C074.EXE
- BWGO00334500.EXE
- BWGO00E10CCB.EXE
- BWGO00E114E9.EXE
- BWGO01CEE21B.EXE
- BWGO01D6EFEF.EXE
- BWGO01D6F5BC.EXE
- BWGO0005C8E5.EXE
- BWGO01A98A3B.EXE
- BWGO0001D24F.EXE
- BWGO001C23DB.EXE
- BWGO003785AF.EXE
- BWGO000C963A.EXE
- BWGO0002040D.EXE
- BWGO022DFBEE.EXE
- BWGO000CB05A.EXE
- BWGO00070AEA.EXE
- BWGO00071829.EXE
- BWGO0001C994.EXE
- BWGO0003417F.EXE
- BWGO020FD1D3.EXE
- BWGO022DF76A.EXE
- BWGO00035B8E.EXE
- BWGO01CEEC9B.EXE
- BWGO01BC2AD9.EXE
- BWGO020EC6EB.EXE
- BWGO020ECD63.EXE
- BWGO000954EA.EXE
- BWGO005BCD57.EXE
- BWGO021AE779.EXE
- BWGO021AEA28.EXE
- BWGO00020A47.EXE
- BWGO0252117B.EXE
- BWGO0001B919.EXE
- BWGO025205E2.EXE
- BWGO000FE630.EXE
- BWGO01A98FD9.EXE
- BWGO00334ABC.EXE
- BWGO000449A8.EXE
- BWGO0001A0FE.EXE
- BWGO00043AB3.EXE
- BWGO00E06177.EXE
- SHUTDOWN.EXE
- NEVER CLICK.EXE
- FAKE SHUTDOWN.EXE
- INTERNET.EXE
- FT3991.SYS
- FT3893.SYS
- 65551172.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 202,240 bytes
- 21,504 bytes
- 27,136 bytes
- 30,667 bytes
- 104,719 bytes
- 59,088 bytes
- 53,248 bytes
- 16,384 bytes
File Type
The filename RESTART.EXE is used by multiple object types including executable programs,objects,objects.
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