PORTABLE PUZZLES.EXE

Cloaked Malware

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Associated Malware Groups

The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:

Cloaked Malware
Worm

File Behavior

PORTABLE PUZZLES.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:

The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
Executes a Process
Creates system tray popups, messages, errors and security warnings

PORTABLE PUZZLES.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:

Executed as a Process
Created as a process on disk
Deleted as a process from disk
Created as a new Background Service on the machine

Country Of Origin

The filename PORTABLE PUZZLES.EXE was first seen on Feb 3 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:

Brazil on Feb 3 2008
Argentina on Feb 3 2008
Spain on Jun 23 2008
Germany on Jun 23 2008
Venezuela on Jan 14 2009
Netherlands on Mar 2 2009
Italy on May 6 2012

File Name Aliases

PORTABLE PUZZLES.EXE can also use the following file names:

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72881692.EXE
11722552.EXE
17784923.EXE
93634208.EXE
98225515.EXE
60522247.EXE

Filesizes

The following file size has been seen:

46,080 bytes
658,003 bytes
98,304 bytes
289,553 bytes
278,933 bytes

File Type

The filename PORTABLE PUZZLES.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.

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