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SKYPEPM.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- System Back Door
- Cloaked Malware
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
SKYPEPM.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Executes a Process
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- This process creates other processes on disk
SKYPEPM.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Executed as a Process
- Created as a process on disk
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Created as a new Background Service on the machine
- Terminated as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename SKYPEPM.EXE was first seen on Mar 29 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Netherlands on Mar 29 2008
- Spain on Aug 12 2008
- on Sep 6 2008
- The United States on Sep 6 2008
- Vietnam on Mar 31 2010
- Germany on Mar 28 2012
- Asia/Pacific Region on May 18 2012
- Thailand on May 18 2012
File Name Aliases
SKYPEPM.EXE can also use the following file names:
- CGS8H0.EXE
- CGS8H2.EXE
- CGS8H3.EXE
- 06261706
- 0.09832902502274132.EXE
- 88813895.SVD
- 13372856.EXE
- 73374544.EXE
- 31892558.EXE
- 02423457.SVD
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 16,896 bytes
- 2,051,016 bytes
- 152,064 bytes
- 151,552 bytes
- 17,408 bytes
- 83,616 bytes
File Type
The filename SKYPEPM.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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