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BEST.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:
- Cloaked Malware
File Behavior
BEST.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- Executes a Process
- This process creates other processes on disk
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Terminates Processes
- The process hooks code into all running processes which could allow it to take control of the system or record keyboard input, mouse activity and screen contents
BEST.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Executed from Temporary Folders
- Deleted as a process from disk
- The process is hooked into all running processes which could allow it to take control of the system or record keyboard input, mouse activity and screen contents
Country Of Origin
The filename BEST.EXE was first seen on Oct 24 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Europe on Oct 24 2007
- South Africa on Aug 1 2010
- The United States on Oct 4 2010
- Vietnam on Oct 4 2010
- Canada on Feb 6 2012
- Turkey on May 24 2012
File Name Aliases
BEST.EXE can also use the following file names:
- ERASE_ME163890.EXE
- ERASE_ME758785.EXE
- ERASE_ME327839.EXE
- ERASE_ME784216.EXE
- ERASE_ME086270.EXE
- ERASE_ME639112.EXE
- BRTRI.EXE
- BESTX.EXE
- ERASE_ME393021.EXE
- ERASE_ME238925.EXE
- ERASE_ME289150.EXE
- BEST[1].JPG
- ERASE_ME585582.EXE
- ERASE_ME154618.EXE
- ERASE_ME908764.EXE
- ERASE_ME122472.EXE
- ERASE_ME045691.EXE
- ERASE_ME780446.EXE
- ERASE_ME642501.EXE
- ERASE_ME744632.EXE
- ERASE_ME566949.EXE
- ERASE_ME098453.EXE
- ERASE_ME302052.EXE
- ERASE_ME018879.EXE
- ERASE_ME708614.EXE
- ERASE_ME818956.EXE
- ERASE_ME174815.EXE
- ERASE_ME140256.EXE
- ERASE_ME306912.EXE
- ERASE_ME340431.EXE
- ERASE_ME344354.EXE
- ERASE_ME581091.EXE
- ERASE_ME676319.EXE
- ERASE_ME711100.EXE
- ERASE_ME825210.EXE
- ERASE_ME631953.EXE
- ERASE_ME306074.EXE
- ERASE_ME078978.EXE
- ERASE_ME086639.EXE
- ERASE_ME204751.EXE
- ERASE_ME215686.EXE
- ERASE_ME574899.EXE
- ERASE_ME583361.EXE
- ERASE_ME593437.EXE
- ERASE_ME604961.EXE
- ERASE_ME848552.EXE
- ERASE_ME898860.EXE
- ERASE_ME900361.EXE
- ERASE_ME094142.EXE
- ERASE_ME149109.EXE
- ERASE_ME267302.EXE
- ERASE_ME307290.EXE
- ERASE_ME308993.EXE
- ERASE_ME386462.EXE
- ERASE_ME431817.EXE
- ERASE_ME493856.EXE
- ERASE_ME750584.EXE
- BEST1.EXE
- CWWZT.EXE
- VFF.EXE
- FMCCAWW.EXE
- OMAEEAD.EXE
- NJVBKPGYOF.EXE
- WNRJUTHQVY.EXE
- WEJMDGG.EXE
- ._.._LOAD_87[1].EXE
- 54053277.EXE
- 69805654.DAT
- 11851031.EXE
- 39424141.EXE
- 15440616.VXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 1,645,056 bytes
- 78,848 bytes
- 60,860 bytes
- 3,700,224 bytes
- 99,328 bytes
- 323,072 bytes
File Type
The filename BEST.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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