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WINPRO.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
WINPRO.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Communicates with other computers using FTP connections
- Creates a TCP port which listens and is available for communication initiated by other computers
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Creates or uses a background service to access the Internet using HTTP protocols
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Executes a Process
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Injects code into other processes
- Performs DNS look ups to resolve URL IP addresses
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- Downloads program file(s) and other content from the web
WINPRO.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Executed as a Process
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
Country Of Origin
The filename WINPRO.EXE was first seen on Mar 25 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- The United States on Mar 25 2008
- Europe on Jul 8 2008
- Italy on Mar 3 2009
- Turkey on Oct 19 2010
- Korea, Republic of on Apr 8 2012
File Name Aliases
WINPRO.EXE can also use the following file names:
- WINPRO.$$A
- CAMFRO~1.EXE
- TV.EXE
- 12202803
- 22738827
- 21798427.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 16,919,040 bytes
- 204,800 bytes
- 84,072 bytes
- 32,768 bytes
- 2,785,280 bytes
File Type
The filename WINPRO.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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