Prevx Research Division
GPHOTOS.SCR
Malicious SoftwareThe most common objects with the name of GPHOTOS.SCR are considered safe.
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
GPHOTOS.SCR has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- Adds products to the system registry
- Adds new menu items in the Internet Explorer Right Click menu
- Modifies the Windows Built in Screen Saver
- Executes a Process
- Uses a Registered MAPI
- This Process sends MIME Email
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Enables the system to use a Communications Proxy Server
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- Uses low level functions to hide itself from the user and from system/security processes
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
GPHOTOS.SCR 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
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Terminated as a Process
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
Country Of Origin
The filename GPHOTOS.SCR was first seen on Mar 20 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- The United States on Mar 20 2008
- Europe on Sep 3 2008
- Greece on Dec 5 2009
File Name Aliases
GPHOTOS.SCR can also use the following file names:
- SMSS.EXE
- DŸŸŸŸE
- A00000000
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 2,962,912 bytes
- 2,302,017 bytes
- 4,476,928 bytes
- 7,168 bytes
File Type
The filename GPHOTOS.SCR refers to many versions of an executable program.
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