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DPLAYSVR.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Fraudulent Security Program
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
DPLAYSVR.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Executes a Process
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Hooks the WININET.DLL function allowing it to read or copy Http and Https web page content and session information
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- Creates new folders on the system
- Injects code into other processes
- This Process Contains User Mode Rootkit Functionality and can hide itself from the running process list
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
DPLAYSVR.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
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Terminated as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename DPLAYSVR.EXE was first seen on Aug 30 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- on Aug 30 2007
- The United States on Mar 16 2008
- India on May 15 2008
- Israel on Jun 10 2008
- Spain on Apr 23 2009
- The United Kingdom on Jun 10 2010
- Iran, Islamic Republic of on Jun 10 2010
- Turkey on Dec 21 2011
File Name Aliases
DPLAYSVR.EXE can also use the following file names:
- 94651461.EXE
- 72164292.EXE
- 17803184.DAT
- 86442466.DAT
- 78337341.DAT
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 186,735 bytes
- 50,176 bytes
- 172,544 bytes
- 33,792 bytes
- 26,624 bytes
- 144,384 bytes
- 70,656 bytes
- 53,728 bytes
- 46,080 bytes
File Type
The filename DPLAYSVR.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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