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INSTALL-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
- Malware Dropper
File Behavior
INSTALL-1.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Executes a Process
- Terminates Processes
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Uses low level functions to hide itself from the user and from system/security processes
INSTALL-1.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Terminated as a Process
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
Country Of Origin
The filename INSTALL-1.EXE was first seen on Oct 21 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Germany on Oct 21 2008
- The United States on May 22 2009
- The United Kingdom on Dec 7 2010
- Italy on Aug 2 2011
- Romania on Oct 4 2011
- Brazil on Mar 5 2012
File Name Aliases
INSTALL-1.EXE can also use the following file names:
- ABAA.EXE
- A1BC.EXE
- B4CD.EXE
- CF3F.EXE
- DUTMTP.EXE
- OBNANO.EXE
- RRJYJP.EXE
- RESASR.EXE
- A.EXE
- B.EXE
- E.EXE
- F2.EXE
- B5.EXE
- C1.EXE
- C4.EXE
- BE.EXE
- A6.EXE
- BB.EXE
- B4.EXE
- C8.EXE
- D9.EXE
- AE.EXE
- EC.EXE
- A7.EXE
- 87.EXE
- A0.EXE
- D2B9.EXE
- A737.EXE
- C744.EXE
- E04F.EXE
- A4E6.EXE
- A0B1.EXE
- DD63.EXE
- D8A2.EXE
- A4B7.EXE
- A37F.EXE
- D682.EXE
- E84C.EXE
- F69C.EXE
- DD28.EXE
- 312F.EXE
- 17332695.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 712,704 bytes
- 151,040 bytes
- 472,368 bytes
- 18,504 bytes
- 452,428 bytes
- 270,336 bytes
- 23,552 bytes
File Type
The filename INSTALL-1.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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