Prevx Research Division
CTFXMON.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware group:
- Worm
File Behavior
CTFXMON.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Injects code into other processes
- 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
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Executes a Process
- Terminates Processes
- Changes the Windows Security Center to stop Antivirus status alerts from being displayed
CTFXMON.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Executed as a Process
- Created as a process on disk
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
Country Of Origin
The filename CTFXMON.EXE was first seen on Nov 24 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Canada on Nov 24 2008
- Israel on Mar 16 2009
- Spain on Nov 5 2009
- Italy on Nov 9 2009
- Chile on Nov 9 2009
- The United Kingdom on Nov 15 2009
- The United States on Jun 14 2010
File Name Aliases
CTFXMON.EXE can also use the following file names:
- CTFXMON.EXE.TXT
- CTFXMON.EXE-VIR
- DC2.EXE
- 01C94E22DB7570B2_CTFXMON_EXE.PE
- 01C94F4009F73C0E_CTFXMON_EXE.PE
- 01C950BC0972FF98_CTFXMON_EXE.PE
- DC19.EXE
- 47637127.EXE
- 74803659.EXE
- 87466594.EXE
- 18935075.EXE
- 04392319.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 53,248 bytes
- 135,168 bytes
File Type
The filename CTFXMON.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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