Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware group:
File Behavior
WINWALTIY.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Disables the Notification Balloon for the Windows Security Center
- Automatically changes your firewall settings to allow itself or other programs to communicate over the internet
- 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
- Adds products to the system registry
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- The process hooks code into all running processes which could allow it to take control of the system or record keyboard input, mouse activity and screen contents
- Executes a Process
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
WINWALTIY.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
Country Of Origin
The filename WINWALTIY.EXE was first seen on Nov 1 2009 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Philippines on Nov 1 2009
- The United Kingdom on Nov 27 2009
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 86,016 bytes
- 106,496 bytes
File Type
The filename WINWALTIY.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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