Prevx Research Division
"SECURITYSCANNER.EXE"
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Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware groups:
- Malware Dropper
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
SECURITYSCANNER.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Executes a Process
- Creates new folders on the system
- This process creates other processes on disk
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Creates a new Background Service on the machine
- 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
- Injects code into other processes
- Performs DNS look ups to resolve URL IP addresses
- Creates, registers ot modifies and SMTP Server
- Hooks the WININET.DLL function allowing it to read or copy Http and Https web page content and session information
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
SECURITYSCANNER.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Executed as a Process
- Created as a process on disk
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
Country Of Origin
The filename SECURITYSCANNER.EXE was first seen on Dec 5 2009 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Russian Federation on Dec 5 2009
- Poland on Nov 9 2010
- The United Kingdom on Nov 11 2010
- South Africa on Nov 14 2010
- The United States on Apr 23 2011
File Name Aliases
SECURITYSCANNER.EXE can also use the following file names:
- SECURITYSCANNER[1].EXE
- SECURITYSCANNER_001.EXE
- SECURITYSCANNER_003.EXE
- SECURITYSCANNER (1).EXE
- XYC.EXE
- VNS.EXE
- SMQ.EXE
- PW.EXE
- 103285271.EXE
- 103285~1.EXE
- 21793474.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 174,080 bytes
- 165,888 bytes
- 1,134,592 bytes
- 187,996 bytes
- 983,040 bytes
- 352,256 bytes
File Type
The filename SECURITYSCANNER.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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