Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:
File Behavior
JDOWNLOADER.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Disables the Notification Balloon for the Windows Security Center
- Disables Access to the Windows Registry Editior
- Disables Access to the Task Manager built into Windows
- Modifies Windows Security Policies to restrict/expand User Privileges on the machine
- Automatically changes your firewall settings to allow itself or other programs to communicate over the internet
- Adds products to the system registry
- Executes a Process
- Terminates Processes
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Executes Processes stored in Temporary Folders
- Creates new folders on the system
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Uses low level functions to hide itself from the user and from system/security processes
JDOWNLOADER.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Terminated as a Process
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Executed from Temporary Folders
Country Of Origin
The filename JDOWNLOADER.EXE was first seen on Jun 18 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Turkey on Jun 18 2008
- on Jul 18 2008
- Morocco on Apr 29 2010
- The United Kingdom on Apr 29 2010
- Spain on Oct 30 2010
- Italy on Jan 2 2012
File Name Aliases
JDOWNLOADER.EXE can also use the following file names:
- JDOWNLOADER (1).EXE
- JDOWNLOADER[1].EXE
- JDOWNLOADER(1).EXE
- BIN/JDOWNLOADER.EXE
- JDOWNL~1.EXE
- JDOWNLOADER_2008-07-23_12-48_V1.947/BIN/JDOWNLOADER.EXE
- $R7VFS2A.EXE
- 88487292
- 00018244
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 275,968 bytes
- 288,256 bytes
- 23,947,181 bytes
- 451,095 bytes
- 1,673,829 bytes
- 95,744 bytes
File Type
The filename JDOWNLOADER.EXE is used by multiple object types including executable programs,objects.
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