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DEATH.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- System Back Door
- Cloaked Malware
- Malware Dropper
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
DEATH.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Executes a Process
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Terminates Processes
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Injects code into other processes
- Uses DNS to retrieve the IP address for web sites
DEATH.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Executed as a Process
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Created as a process on disk
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Terminated as a Process
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
- This Process may have been infected by a file infecting virus
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Created as a new Background Service on the machine
Country Of Origin
The filename DEATH.EXE was first seen on May 10 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Ukraine on May 10 2007
- on May 10 2007
- Spain on Oct 7 2007
- Armenia on Oct 7 2007
- Mexico on Jan 24 2010
- Indonesia on Nov 10 2011
File Name Aliases
DEATH.EXE can also use the following file names:
- AHKAA.EXE
- INVISIBLE[1].JPG
- ERASEME_02505.EXE
- AEKAA.EXE
- SPOOLSV.EXE
- 11537.EX$
- !I!SPOOLSV.EXE
- 95716526.EXE
- 77303961.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 94,208 bytes
- 67,072 bytes
- 72,192 bytes
- 495,104 bytes
- 529,502 bytes
File Type
The filename DEATH.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
File Activity
One or more files with the name DEATH.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Creates c:\windows\system32\Shell.pci
- Deletes c:\windows\system32\spoolsv.exe
- Creates c:\pass.di
- Opens/modifes c:\autoexec.bat
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\000009c400000a90.ur
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\000009c400000a90.ur
Network Activity
One or more files with the name DEATH.EXE performs the following network events:
- DNS Lookup192.168.0.15 TAMMY-EF9FDB76
Website Activity
One or more files with the name DEATH.EXE interacts with the following web sites and pages. Web addresses have been deliberately modified to prevent unintentional use.
- TCP:127.0.0.1:1088 Port:15
- Port 80 IP:125.78.65.243
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