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ERY.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware group:
- Cloaked Malware
File Behavior
ERY.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Executes Processes stored in Temporary Folders
- Executes a Process
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Adds a Registry Key (RUN) to auto start Programs on system start up
ERY.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Executed as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename ERY.EXE was first seen on Nov 21 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Europe on Nov 21 2007
- Netherlands on Nov 21 2007
- The United States on Nov 4 2008
- The United Kingdom on Nov 4 2008
- South Africa on Apr 8 2011
- Colombia on Jan 21 2012
File Name Aliases
ERY.EXE can also use the following file names:
- PUSK2[1].EXE
- UYM.EXE
- WLP.EXE
- FAW.EXE
- DVV.EXE
- SUJ.EXE
- IHC.EXE
- KIN.EXE
- FIW.EXE
- ERECOVERY_V2.5.4012.EXE
- PUSK2.EXE
- ERECOVERYINSTALL_V2.1.3000.EXE
- 24 ERECOVERY_V2.5.4012.EXE
- 0.6727535623849009.EXE
- 87343038
- 0.19864144392889505.EXE
- 64928922.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 344,064 bytes
- 17,100,336 bytes
- 361,984 bytes
- 10,541,162 bytes
File Type
The filename ERY.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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