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SWEETIMSETUP[1].EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Fraudulent Security Program
- Cloaked Malware
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
SWEETIMSETUP[1].EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- Hooks the WININET.DLL function allowing it to read or copy Http and Https web page content and session information
- Executes a Process
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- Changes the Windows Security Center to stop Antivirus status alerts from being displayed
- Changes the Windows Security Center to stop Firewall status alerts from being displayed
- Changes the Windows Security Center to stop Firewall override alerts from being displayed
- Changes the Windows Security Center to stop warnings from being displayed if automatic Windows Updates are not enabled
- Creates a new Background Service on the machine
- Injects code into other processes
- This process creates other processes on disk
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Adds a Registry Key (RUN) to auto start Programs on system start up
- Adds a Registry Key (RUNONCE) to auto start Programs on system start up
- Creates new folders on the system
- Copies files
- Creates or uses a background service to access the Internet using HTTP protocols
- Performs DNS look ups to resolve URL IP addresses
SWEETIMSETUP[1].EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Executed as a Process
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed by Internet Explorer
- Terminated as a Process
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Changes to the file command map within the registry
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
Country Of Origin
The filename SWEETIMSETUP[1].EXE was first seen on Sep 25 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Italy on Sep 25 2007
- Netherlands on Mar 14 2008
- Europe on Mar 31 2008
- South Africa on Oct 18 2010
- Indonesia on Oct 18 2010
- The United Kingdom on Dec 23 2010
- The United States on Feb 15 2011
- Turkey on May 24 2012
File Name Aliases
SWEETIMSETUP[1].EXE can also use the following file names:
- SWEETIMSETUP (1).EXE
- SWEETIMSETUP.EXE
- SWEETIMSETUP(1).EXE
- SWEETIMSETUP_1.EXE
- SWEETIMSETUP_2.EXE
- HANGULATJELEK.EXE
- SWEETIMSETUP(nn).EXE
- SWEETIMSETUP BRU.EXE
- SWEETIMSETUP[2].EXE
- SWEETIMSETUP(3).EXE
- TTVYT81T.EXE
- SWEETIMSETUP(5).EXE
- SWEETIMSE.EXE
- OW4Q749Z.EXE
- SWEETIMSETUP(2).EXE
- SWEETIMSETUP-04052008.EXE
- SWEET4343.EXE
- SWEET88.EXE
- SWEET5353.EXE
- SWEET5151.EXE
- INSTALLER_COUNTER-STRIKE_1_6_DEUTSCH_DEUTSCH.EXE
- 9S4R1O1C.EXE
- DC1.EXE
- DC18.EXE
- 12956426.BIN
- 42921922.DAT
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 91,343 bytes
- 354,104 bytes
- 983,064 bytes
- 494,392 bytes
- 154,718 bytes
- 4,402,792 bytes
- 305,456 bytes
File Type
The filename SWEETIMSETUP[1].EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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