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UPLOAD.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
UPLOAD.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- 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
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Executes a Process
- Communicates with other computers using FTP connections
- Creates system tray popups, messages, errors and security warnings
- Uses DNS to retrieve the IP address for web sites
- Uses your PC to connect to Chat rooms
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- This Process Contains User Mode Rootkit Functionality and can hide itself from the running process list
UPLOAD.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Created as a process on disk
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Executed as a Process
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
Country Of Origin
The filename UPLOAD.EXE was first seen on Aug 2 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Spain on Aug 2 2007
- Romania on Aug 2 2007
- The United States on Mar 18 2008
- Taiwan on Mar 18 2008
- France on Jun 27 2008
- Egypt on Sep 28 2009
- South Africa on May 25 2012
File Name Aliases
UPLOAD.EXE can also use the following file names:
- ICQ[1].JPG
- TUX.EXE
- UPDATE.EXE
- SUPERVIRUS.EXE
- ơɝ
- 68237617.SVD
- 82076304.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 336,384 bytes
- 314,368 bytes
- 73,728 bytes
- 3,683,544 bytes
- 86,016 bytes
- 38,912 bytes
- 770,048 bytes
File Type
The filename UPLOAD.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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