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SE.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- System Back Door
- Worm
File Behavior
SE.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Adds products to the system registry
- The Process is polymorphic and can change its structure
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Automatically changes your firewall settings to allow itself or other programs to communicate over the internet
- Adds a Registry Key (RUN) to auto start Programs on system start up
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Executes a Process
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Modifies the Windows Host File which could be used to stop you visiting specific web sites by redirecting you to alternative addresses without you knowing
- Reads email address and phone book details
- Looks at the contents of the autoexec.bat file
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Terminates Processes
SE.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
- Created as a new Background Service on the machine
- Terminated as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename SE.EXE was first seen on Jun 28 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Romania on Jun 28 2007
- Uruguay on Jun 28 2007
- Spain on Oct 14 2007
- The United States on Mar 31 2009
- South Africa on May 11 2009
- Tunisia on May 11 2009
File Name Aliases
SE.EXE can also use the following file names:
- DOP.EXE
- SE[n].EXE
- SVCHOST.EXE
- SE=DOWNLOADER.EXE
- SE(n).EXE
- WMISYND.EXE
- RT.EXE.EXE
- SZ.EXE.EXE
- AS.EXE.EXE
- UA.EXE.EXE
- SG.EXE.EXE
- XP.EXE.EXE
- WH.EXE.EXE
- RF.EXE.EXE
- DM.EXE.EXE
- FOLDER64.EXE
- PF.EXE.EXE
- LNCOM_.EXE
- JP.EXE
- XX.EXE
- DW.EXE
- VU.EXE
- CA.EXE
- CN.EXE
- DR.EXE
- JI.EXE
- LB.EXE
- MS.EXE
- PV.EXE
- RK.EXE
- SY.EXE
- TR.EXE
- DB.EXE
- GI.EXE
- AK.EXE
- HB.EXE
- EF.EXE
- QX.EXE
- JH.EXE
- SO.EXE
- EI.EXE
- XN.EXE
- CU.EXE
- KY.EXE
- LW.EXE
- NS.EXE
- XO.EXE
- KG.EXE
- SF.EXE
- QN.EXE
- EN.EXE
- BT.EXE
- EC.EXE
- QS.EXE
- BI.EXE
- UX.EXE
- SC.EXE
- QZ.EXE
- TU.EXE
- YF.EXE
- EO.EXE
- IO.EXE
- UT.EXE
- MY.EXE
- ZW.EXE
- GV.EXE
- DQ.EXE
- SE_004.EXE
- SE_005.EXE
- SE_006.EXE
- SE_007.EXE
- SE_008.EXE
- SE_009.EXE
- SE_011.EXE
- 51662496.7
- SE_002.EXE
- SE_010.EXE
- SE_003.EXE
- SE_001.EXE
- _SE.EXE
- 95581405.CU
- 20233295.SVD
- 71837543.SVD
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 278,528 bytes
- 36,352 bytes
- 5,074,944 bytes
- 29,696 bytes
- 841,216 bytes
- 288,768 bytes
- 3,174,742 bytes
- 30,208 bytes
File Type
The filename SE.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
File Activity
One or more files with the name SE.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Opens/modifes c:\autoexec.bat
- Creates c:\windows\system\cmd
- Creates c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
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