File Investigation Report
00HOEAV.COMCloaked Malware
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Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware group:
- Cloaked Malware
File Behavior
00HOEAV.COM has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- This Process Creates Other Processes On Disk
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Creates a new Background Service on the machine
- Loads and Executes a System Driver File
- Copies files
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- Executes a Process
- Injects code into other processes
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
00HOEAV.COM has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
Country Of Origin
The filename 00HOEAV.COM was first seen on Jul 5 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Prevx community:
- POLAND on Jul 5 2008
- SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC on Jul 6 2008
- TURKEY on Jul 6 2008
- The EUROPEAN UNION on Jul 9 2008
File Name Aliases
00HOEAV.COM can also use the following file names:
- AMVO.EXE
- XMG.EXE
- DPTRAS~1.COM
- 60324698.SVD
- 22486091.SVD
- 82140823.EXE
- 79668782.COM
- 25459984.SVD
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 114,342 bytes
- 118,734 bytes
- 113,028 bytes
- 117,007 bytes
Vendor, Product and Version Information
These files have no vendor, product or version information specified in the file header.
File Type
The filename 00HOEAV.COM refers to many versions of an executable program.
File Activity
One or more files with the name 00HOEAV.COM creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\port.dll
- Copies filec:\windows\system32\dllcache\vga.sys to c:\windows\system32\drivers\vga.sys
- Deletes c:\windows\system32\amvo.exe
- Deletes c:\windows\system32\amvo0.dll
- Creates c:\windows\system32\amvo0.dll
- Deletes c:\00hoeav.co
- Copies filec:\windows\system32\amvo.exe to c:\00hoeav.co
- Deletes c:\autorun.in
- Creates c:\autorun.in
- Deletes d:\00hoeav.co
- Copies filec:\windows\system32\amvo.exe to d:\00hoeav.co
- Deletes d:\autorun.in
- Creates d:\autorun.in
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\help.rar
- Deletes c:\windows\xmg.exe
- Opens/modifes c:\autoexec.bat
- Moves c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\help.exe to c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\tru15E.tmp
- Creates c:\windows\xmg.exe
- Copies filec:\windows\xmg.exe to c:\windows\system32\amvo.exe
- Deletes c:\windows\system32\amvo1.dll
- Creates c:\windows\system32\amvo1.dll
Registry Activity
One or more files with the name 00HOEAV.COM creates or modifies the following registry keys and values:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run amva C:\WINDOWS\system32\amvo.exe
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Hidden value:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced ShowSuperHidden value:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer NoDriveTypeAutoRun [REG_DWORD, value: 00000091]
Website Activity
One or more files with the name 00HOEAV.COM interacts with the following web sites and pages. Web addresses have been deliberately modified to prevent unintentional use.
- TCP:127.0.0.1:1092 Port:19
- Port 80 IP:60.169.1.92
- TCP:127.0.0.1:1095 Port:18