Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware groups:
- Cloaked Malware
- Fraudulent Security Program
- Malware Dropper
File Behavior
WINIVSTR.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Executes a Process
- This Process Creates Other Processes On Disk
- Creates system tray popups, messages, errors and security warnings
- Visits web sites on your PC without you knowing
WINIVSTR.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- This program is often downloaded from the web
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Terminated as a Process
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
Country Of Origin
The filename WINIVSTR.EXE was first seen on Jan 30 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Prevx community:
- SPAIN on Jan 30 2008
- ARGENTINA on Jan 30 2008
- GERMANY on Aug 21 2008
File Name Aliases
WINIVSTR.EXE can also use the following file names:
- INSTALL[1].EXE
- 90572157.OB_
- 25726753.0XE
- UDEFENDER_SETUP[1].EXE
- 47629545.EXE
- ZCGIUKK.TMP
- INSTALL.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 71,992 bytes
- 314,724 bytes
- 160,568 bytes
Vendor, Product and Version Information
Files with the name WINIVSTR.EXE have been seen to have the following Vendor, Product and Version Information in the file header:
- ; Installer Module; 1, 0, 0, 1
File Type
The filename WINIVSTR.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
File Activity
One or more files with the name WINIVSTR.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- create folder C:\Program Files\XPSecurityCenter
- Opens/modifes c:\autoexec.bat
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\Binaries1.zip
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\Binaries2.zip
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\Binaries3.zip
- Creates c:\documents and settings\all users\desktop\XPSecurityCenter.lnk
- Creates c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs\xpsecuritycenter\XPSecurityCenter.lnk
- Creates c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs\xpsecuritycenter\Uninstall.lnk
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/COPYING
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.db
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.hdb
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.hdu
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.ndb
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.ndu
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.zmd
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.fp
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.mdb
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.mdu
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.info
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.wdb
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.pdb
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35/daily.cfg
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\COPYING
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.cfg
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.db
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.fp
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.hdb
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.hdu
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.inf
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.mdb
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.mdu
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.ndb
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.ndu
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.pdb
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.wdb
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\clamav-c10840f24ba06974b17ba18c63609c35\daily.zmd
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\cur31.tmp
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\cur31.tmp
Website Activity
One or more files with the name WINIVSTR.EXE interacts with the following web sites and pages. Web addresses have been deliberately modified to prevent unintentional use.
- www .xpsecuritycenter .com / XPSecurityCenter / Binaries1 .zip
- www .xpsecuritycenter .com / XPSecurityCenter / Binaries2 .zip
- www .xpsecuritycenter .com / XPSecurityCenter / Binaries3 .zip
- Remote server connection to www .softcashier .co
- Port 80 IP:206.161.126.40