Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware groups:
- Cloaked Malware
- Malicious Software
- Malware Dropper
File Behavior
MOVIE.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Executes a Process
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Adds products to the system registry
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- 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
- Terminates Processes
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- Injects code into other processes
- Performs DNS look ups to resolve URL IP addresses
- Creates, registers ot modifies and SMTP Server
- Copies files
- Downloads program file(s) and other content from the web
MOVIE.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
- Terminated as a Process
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
Country Of Origin
The filename MOVIE.EXE was first seen on Sep 4 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Italy on Sep 4 2007
- Europe on Sep 4 2007
- Poland on May 15 2010
- The United Kingdom on Aug 25 2010
- Turkey on Aug 29 2010
- Finland on Aug 30 2010
- South Africa on May 24 2012
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 9,011,719 bytes
- 64,866 bytes
- 283,648 bytes
- 275,456 bytes
- 268,288 bytes
- 5,530,617 bytes
- 159,232 bytes
File Type
The filename MOVIE.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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