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KEYFINDER.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- System Back Door
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
KEYFINDER.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Executes Processes stored in Temporary Folders
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Executes a Process
- Creates system tray popups, messages, errors and security warnings
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- 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
- Adds products to the system registry
- Enables an In Process Object/Server - Common with DLL Injections
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Creates new folders on the system
KEYFINDER.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Executed as a Process
- Created by processes which appear to be checking for interception by security products
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed from Temporary Folders
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Executed by Internet Explorer
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
Country Of Origin
The filename KEYFINDER.EXE was first seen on May 18 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- The United States on May 18 2007
- Australia on May 18 2007
- Kuwait on May 23 2007
- Canada on May 23 2007
- Spain on Sep 4 2007
- Ecuador on Sep 4 2007
- on Mar 8 2008
- South Africa on Mar 8 2008
- Poland on Jan 2 2009
- Italy on Nov 13 2009
- The United Kingdom on Nov 13 2009
- Turkey on May 20 2012
File Name Aliases
KEYFINDER.EXE can also use the following file names:
- MAGICAL JELLYBEAN KEYFINDER 1.5B2.EXE
- KEYFINDERXP.EXE
- MS KEY FINDER.EXE
- SCREAM.EXE
- WINDOWS & OFFICE KEY FINDER.EXE
- KEY.TXT
- KEYFINDER15.EXE
- AAAAAAKEYFINDER.EXE
- KEYFINDER 1_5.EXE
- KEYFINDER[1].EXE
- KEYFINDER[n].EXE
- INSANEKEYFINDER.EXE
- KEYFINDER(n).EXE
- KEYFINDER1.EXE
- INSANEKEYFINDER[n].EXE
- KEYFINDER ADVANCED 2007.EXE
- KEYFINDER(1).EXE
- KEYFINDER2.EXE
- DC1.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 264,873 bytes
- 11,776 bytes
- 272,351 bytes
- 710,656 bytes
- 2,126,962 bytes
- 68,282 bytes
- 262,727 bytes
- 362,469 bytes
File Type
The filename KEYFINDER.EXE is used by multiple object types including self extracting compressed files,executable programs,objects.
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