Prevx Research Division
"UPDATE.DAT"
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Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware group:
- Virus
File Behavior
UPDATE.DAT has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Executes a Process
- This process creates other processes on disk
UPDATE.DAT has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Executed from Temporary Folders
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Executed as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename UPDATE.DAT was first seen on Jun 10 2010 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- The United Kingdom on Jun 10 2010
- Turkey on Jun 10 2010
- The United States on Aug 25 2010
- Kazakhstan on Feb 8 2011
File Name Aliases
UPDATE.DAT can also use the following file names:
- DC35.DAT
- 61278611.DAT
- 50940927.DAT
- 68118855.DAT
- 45122001.DAT
- 59972751.EX_
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 166,460 bytes
- 91,136 bytes
- 323,049 bytes
File Type
The filename UPDATE.DAT refers to many versions of an executable program.
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