Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- System Back Door
- Malicious Software
- Malware Downloader
File Behavior
THESEUS.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Disables Access to the Windows Registry Editior
- Disables Access to the Task Manager built into Windows
- Modifies Windows Security Policies to restrict/expand User Privileges on the machine
- Automatically changes your firewall settings to allow itself or other programs to communicate over the internet
- Adds products to the system registry
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Executes a Process
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- This Process uses Anti Dissasembly Tricks to avoid analysis by security products
- The Process is polymorphic and can change its structure
- This Process Contains User Mode Rootkit Functionality and can hide itself from the running process list
THESEUS.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
- Terminated as a Process
- Deleted as a process from disk
Country Of Origin
The filename THESEUS.EXE was first seen on Jun 11 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Vietnam on Jun 11 2007
- Canada on May 16 2008
- Georgia on Jun 14 2008
- Spain on Aug 8 2008
- Europe on Aug 8 2008
- India on Mar 7 2010
- The United Kingdom on Mar 7 2010
- Turkey on May 15 2012
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 880,640 bytes
- 2,071,172 bytes
- 274,688 bytes
- 433,152 bytes
- 427,520 bytes
- 1,200,128 bytes
File Type
The filename THESEUS.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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