Prevx Research Division
LOGREAD.EXE
Malicious SoftwareIt is possible that your PC could be infected. The file name LOGREAD.EXE is used by both safe and unsafe programs.
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
LOGREAD.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is polymorphic and can change its structure
- 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
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- This Process looks to see what security products and services are running on the system
- Disables safe mode on your PC
- Looks at the contents of the autoexec.bat file
- Drops known malicious software during execution
- Reads email address and phone book details
- Uses DNS to retrieve the IP address for web sites
LOGREAD.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 by processes which appear to be checking for interception by security products
- Enabled as a COM Object/Server on the Local Machine
Country Of Origin
The filename LOGREAD.EXE was first seen on May 12 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- The United States on May 12 2007
- Netherlands on Apr 16 2008
- Thailand on Oct 20 2008
- Pakistan on Jun 12 2009
- Spain on Aug 23 2009
- Turkey on May 22 2012
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 110,592 bytes
- 126,976 bytes
- 111,172 bytes
- 110,663 bytes
- 409,624 bytes
- 122,880 bytes
File Type
The filename LOGREAD.EXE is used by multiple object types including executable programs,objects.
File Activity
One or more files with the name LOGREAD.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Creates c:\windows\system32\wmdrtc32.dl_
- Creates c:\KUKU400alpha
- Deletes c:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates d:\KUKU400alph
- Deletes d:\KUKU400alph
- Creates f:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates g:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates h:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates i:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates j:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates k:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates l:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates m:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates n:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates o:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates p:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates q:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates r:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates s:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates t:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates u:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates v:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates w:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates x:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates y:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates z:\KUKU400alpha
- Deletes c:\windows\system32\drivers\fmmqjn.sys
- Creates c:\windows\system32\drivers\fmmqjn.sys
- Opens/modifes c:\autoexec.bat
Network Activity
One or more files with the name LOGREAD.EXE performs the following network events:
- DNS Lookup207.46.193.254 www.microsoft.com
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