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HOTFIX.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Fraudulent Security Program
- Malicious Software
- Malware Dropper
File Behavior
HOTFIX.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Executes a Process
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- Terminates Processes
- 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
- Sets processes to start during user logon
- Injects code into other processes
- Performs DNS look ups to resolve URL IP addresses
- Adds products to the system registry
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Uses low level functions to hide itself from the user and from system/security processes
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
HOTFIX.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
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Terminated as a Process
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
Country Of Origin
The filename HOTFIX.EXE was first seen on May 29 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- South Africa on May 29 2007
- The United States on Mar 23 2008
- Europe on Mar 29 2008
- The United Kingdom on Sep 30 2010
- Thailand on May 24 2012
File Name Aliases
HOTFIX.EXE can also use the following file names:
- YPQ2STJD[1].EXE
- H8GVU9GA[1].EXE
- IVKW2NS3[1].EXE
- BONJ_CF2[1].EXE
- JFQ2K9VO[1].EXE
- OALPXZB0[1].EXE
- Z2V61FPU[1].EXE
- AHQ0NG9A[1].EXE
- BFOSQXOH[1].EXE
- KCDVY9TJ[1].EXE
- UCGPYAZB[1].EXE
- UZWTMEGT[1].EXE
- MJSBAH45[1].EXE
- LMXEW5AH[1].EXE
- QTASAIS0[1].EXE
- V8VYXTWE[1].EXE
- TIICZBUO[1].EXE
- P0WNDM8O[1].EXE
- ALYSQ7V_[1].EXE
- PQJAHDOP[1].EXE
- MDRBSK2Q[1].EXE
- FM_ERJUO[1].EXE
- QEHHZO7G[1].EXE
- EHGJYNLK[1].EXE
- K8MALGBQ[1].EXE
- W1GL3YYD[1].EXE
- JMHFKJH.EXE
- EOXBN7IM[1].EXE
- L3DCPJQK[1].EXE
- AIDJMDKE[1].EXE
- Q2GVKASL[1].EXE
- FOKQVDZG[1].EXE
- GYYEHJSC[1].EXE
- WB3IPL5D[1].EXE
- LYNAQIK_CO_CC[1].EXE
- C7D95C~1.EXE
- LATINAS_PORN_MOVIE_114.MPEG[1].EXE
- LOLITA_FUCK_MOVIE_92.MPEG[1].EXE
- FLASH_PLAYER_INSTALLER[1].EXE
- BDSM_MOVIE_214.MPEG[1].EXE
- 879899~1.EXE
- HOTFIX.EXE-VIR
- 754131~1.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 57,616 bytes
- 650,240 bytes
- 654,336 bytes
- 93,456 bytes
- 652,288 bytes
- 730,112 bytes
- 2,018,592 bytes
- 57,344 bytes
File Type
The filename HOTFIX.EXE is used by multiple object types including objects,executable programs.
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