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REAL.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Cloaked Malware
- Malicious Software
- Virus
File Behavior
REAL.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Adds products to the system registry
- Changes to the file command map within the registry
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Executes a Process
- Creates new folders on the system
- Adds or modifies Chat service settings
- Injects code into other processes
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
REAL.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Changes to the file command map within the registry
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Terminated as a Process
- Deleted as a process from disk
Country Of Origin
The filename REAL.EXE was first seen on May 17 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- The United States on May 17 2007
- Kuwait on Aug 20 2007
- Saudi Arabia on Aug 20 2007
- Canada on Oct 14 2007
- Spain on Dec 18 2009
- Italy on Dec 18 2009
- The United Kingdom on Mar 28 2012
File Name Aliases
REAL.EXE can also use the following file names:
- YAHOO!.EXE
- DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS.EXE
- PROGRAM FILES.EXE
- WINDOWS.EXE
- TEMP.EXE
- SERVICES.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 24,576 bytes
- 5,288,920 bytes
- 5,212,160 bytes
- 692,208 bytes
- 37,888 bytes
- 253,440 bytes
File Type
The filename REAL.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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