Prevx Research Division
USBFIX.EXE
Cloaked MalwareFree PC Cleanup from Webroot
Use Webroot SecureAnywhere to remove USBFIX.EXE.
"Just when you thought it couldn't get any better or faster. The Webroot scanning engine is 'high octane' with a hidden nitrous oxide system. Bravo!!!" W. Lodzinski, SecureAnywhere User
Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Cloaked Malware
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
USBFIX.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Adds products to the system registry
- Executes a Process
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Injects code into other processes
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- Creates new folders on the system
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Injects code into other processes
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
USBFIX.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
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Terminated as a Process
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
- Created by processes which appear to be checking for interception by security products
Country Of Origin
The filename USBFIX.EXE was first seen on Jun 12 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Taiwan on Jun 12 2008
- Europe on Oct 29 2008
- Uruguay on Sep 20 2009
- Mexico on Dec 4 2009
- Canada on Dec 4 2009
- Tunisia on Dec 14 2009
- France on Dec 14 2009
- Italy on Jul 7 2010
- Morocco on Jul 7 2010
File Name Aliases
USBFIX.EXE can also use the following file names:
- USB[n].EXE
- ERASEME_83123.EXE
- ERASEME_52023.EXE
- ERASEME_42833.EXE
- ERASEME_16232.EXE
- ERASEME_05175.EXE
- ERASEME_64578.EXE
- ERASEME_21376.EXE
- ERASEME_27663.EXE
- ERASEME_13671.EXE
- NODBHIEFXB.EXE
- ERASEME_77465.EXE
- ERASEME_56620.EXE
- ERASEME_75012.EXE
- USBFIX 6.059 FREE.EXE
- USBFIX[1].EXE
- USBFIX_2.EXE
- USBFIX 6.063 FREE.EXE
- MWAU.EXE
- U[1].EXE
- 26.SCR
- 04.SCR
- 051.EXE
- DC34.EXE
- 78783976.EXE
- 72790723.SVD
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 1,016,900 bytes
- 512,059 bytes
- 394,752 bytes
- 1,366,834 bytes
- 420,772 bytes
- 138,240 bytes
- 1,364,336 bytes
File Type
The filename USBFIX.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
Help the Webroot Community to fight cyber crime
We are always looking for ways to improve the quality and speed of research to help us protect you from malicious software and cyber crime.
PCMag.com Editors' Choice Award Logo is a trademark of Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. Used under license.