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SNAPSHOT.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Fraudulent Security Program
- System Back Door
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
SNAPSHOT.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Disables the Notification Balloon for the Windows Security Center
- 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
- Executes a Process
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Terminates Processes
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Injects code into other processes
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
SNAPSHOT.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Executed as a Process
- Terminated as a Process
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
- Deleted as a process from disk
Country Of Origin
The filename SNAPSHOT.EXE was first seen on Jul 10 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- The United Kingdom on Jul 10 2007
- Italy on Jul 10 2007
- The United States on Oct 3 2007
- Spain on Oct 3 2007
- Iran, Islamic Republic of on Jan 26 2008
- Austria on Mar 14 2008
- Pakistan on Mar 6 2010
File Name Aliases
SNAPSHOT.EXE can also use the following file names:
- THINSTALL.VS/SNAPSHOT.EXE
- THINSTALL 3.3/SNAPSHOT.EXE
- UNPACKED/SNAPSHOT.EXE
- THINSTALL VIRTUALIZATION SUITE 3.332 CRACKED/SNAPSHOT.EXE
- SNAP.EXE
- TVS/SNAPSHOT.EXE
- THINSTALL 3.104 PORTABLE - BALTHAZOR/SNAPSHOT.EXE
- THINSTALL PORTABLE/SNAPSHOT.EXE
- SNAPSHOT(n).EXE
- QQ.EXE
- 47268506.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 221,261 bytes
- 123,464 bytes
- 61,440 bytes
- 9,991 bytes
- 45,056 bytes
- 253,976 bytes
- 67,943 bytes
- 9,873 bytes
File Type
The filename SNAPSHOT.EXE is used by multiple object types including objects,executable programs.
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