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CLICKME.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Spyware
- Cloaked Malware
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
CLICKME.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- This process creates other processes on disk
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Creates system tray popups, messages, errors and security warnings
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- 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
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- Executes a Process
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- The Process is polymorphic and can change its structure
CLICKME.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Added as a Registry Key (RUNONCE) to auto start Programs on system start up
- Executed as a Process
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Created as a process on disk
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
- Created by processes which appear to be checking for interception by security products
- Deleted as a process from disk
Country Of Origin
The filename CLICKME.EXE was first seen on May 17 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- The United States on May 17 2007
- Spain on May 17 2007
- The United Kingdom on May 31 2007
- Canada on Jun 6 2007
- South Africa on Jun 6 2007
- India on Jul 15 2007
- France on Mar 15 2008
- Italy on Aug 6 2008
- Argentina on Dec 27 2010
File Name Aliases
CLICKME.EXE can also use the following file names:
- DE1.EXE
- DG1.EXE
- 01CB266404D76080_3D8C1977F25C9ADF7DDADBE45DDEAD9F2640A19B686CE51771E1D3D3CBC1D435.PE
- DC37.EXE
- 21387948.DAT
- 29492106.DAT
- 46498257.DAT
- 67015748.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 40,960 bytes
- 173,536 bytes
- 648,866 bytes
- 5,528,807 bytes
- 417,792 bytes
- 167,936 bytes
- 49,152 bytes
- 135,168 bytes
- 116,224 bytes
File Type
The filename CLICKME.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
File Activity
One or more files with the name CLICKME.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nst7.tmp
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\UserInfo.dll
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1033.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1036.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1040.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1034.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1043.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1031.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1030.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1035.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1053.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\2070.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1046.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\2068.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1044.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1029.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1055.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1032.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1045.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1038.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\1048.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\ioSpecial.ini
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\modern-wizard.bmp
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\modern-header.bmp
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\nsj9.tmp\InstallOptions.dll
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