WELCOME.EXE

File Behavior

WELCOME.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:

• The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
• 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
• Executes a Process
• Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
• Reads your outlook address book
• Disables the built in Windows File Protection System
• Adds a Registry Key (RUN) to auto start Programs on system start up
• Executes Processes stored in Temporary Folders
• This process creates other processes on disk
• Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
• This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
• Hooks the WININET.DLL function allowing it to read or copy Http and Https web page content and session information
• Creates new folders on the system
• Injects code into other processes
• Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
• Violates Prevx File Security Settings
• Deletes an ActiveX component

WELCOME.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:

• Deleted as a process from disk
• Executed as a Process
• Created as a process on disk
• Executed from Temporary Folders
• Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
• Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs