ADVANTAGE.EXE

File Behavior

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

• Adds a Registry Key (RUN) to auto start Programs on system start up
• Adds a Registry Key (RUNONCE) to auto start Programs on system start up
• Adds products to the system registry
• Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
• This process creates other processes on disk
• Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
• Uses hidden browser windows to connect to web sites without telling you
• Creates system tray popups, messages, errors and security warnings
• Opens browser pop ups
• Runs Javascript code
• The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
• This Process Contains User Mode Rootkit Functionality and can hide itself from the running process list
• Creates a Toolbar Extension for Internet Explorer
• 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
• Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
• Copies files
• Enables an In Process Object/Server - Common with DLL Injections
• Looks at the contents of the autoexec.bat file
• Uses low level raw disk access which could bypass security applications and checks
• Reads email address and phone book details
• Visits web sites on your PC without you knowing
• Executes a Process
• Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
• Makes outbound connections to other computers using NETBIOSOUT protocols
• 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
• Creates new file extentions so that Internet Explorer will automatically open and potentially execute additional file types
• Terminates Processes
• This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
• Executes Processes stored in Temporary Folders
• Registers a Windows APPINIT DLL To be loaded in all processes
• This Process is a file infector which modifies program files to include a copy of the infection

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

• Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
• Executed as a Process
• Deleted as a process from disk
• Created as a process on disk
• Terminated as a Process
• Created as a new Background Service on the machine
• Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
• Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
• Executed from Temporary Folders
• Victim of a Heap Based Buffer Overflow Exploit
• Copied to multiple locations on the system
• Downloaded from covert web sites without the user knowing
• Created by processes which appear to be checking for interception by security products