File Investigation Report
5492.EXECloaked Malware
Your PC may be infected. The presence of a file called 5492.EXE is a possible sign of infection.
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Cloaked Malware
- Worm
File Behavior
5492.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- This Process Creates Other Processes On Disk
- Executes a Process
- Creates system tray popups, messages, errors and security warnings
5492.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Executed from Temporary Folders
- Created as a process on disk
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Executed as a Process
- Created by processes which appear to be checking for interception by security products
Country Of Origin
The filename 5492.EXE was first seen on Sep 8 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Prevx community:
- GERMANY on Sep 8 2008
- The EUROPEAN UNION on Sep 18 2008
- The UNITED KINGDOM on Sep 29 2008
File Name Aliases
5492.EXE can also use the following file names:
- 5492[n].EXE
- C1C86DC3-83C8-450D-8BAB-BDE1102BC10A_5492.EXE
- 82192176.EXE
- 5492[1].EXE
- 30421226.EXE
- 84634309.DAT
- 88778031.SVD
- ZHDLEDV.TMP
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 1,007,354 bytes
- 1,005,239 bytes
- 1,016,387 bytes
- 1,016,489 bytes
Vendor, Product and Version Information
These files have no vendor, product or version information specified in the file header.
File Type
The filename 5492.EXE refers to many versions of a self extracting compressed file.
File Activity
One or more files with the name 5492.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- create folder C:\Program Files\SAV
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\desktop\System Antivirus 2008.lnk
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\4cvefhyb\135[1]
- Copies filec:\program files\sav\sav.cpl to c:\windows\system32\sav.cpl
- Deletes c:\program files\sav\sav.ooo
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\2lcwzf76\lb[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\4cvefhyb\l[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\7gddxlhz\s[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\2lcwzf76\y2[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\4cvefhyb\y1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\7gddxlhz\v1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\67acpgmg\y3[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\2lcwzf76\r[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\4cvefhyb\tb1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\7gddxlhz\tb2[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\67acpgmg\sp[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\2lcwzf76\pb2[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\4cvefhyb\pb1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\7gddxlhz\pb4[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\67acpgmg\pb3[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\2lcwzf76\pr[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\4cvefhyb\l1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\7gddxlhz\l11[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\67acpgmg\l2[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\2lcwzf76\l3[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\4cvefhyb\b1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\7gddxlhz\b2[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\67acpgmg\b3[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\2lcwzf76\b4[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\4cvefhyb\a[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\7gddxlhz\133[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\67acpgmg\w1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\2lcwzf76\w2[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\4cvefhyb\g1[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\7gddxlhz\g1[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\4cvefhyb\g2[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\67acpgmg\g1[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\7gddxlhz\g2[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\67acpgmg\g2[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\67acpgmg\g3[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\2lcwzf76\g1[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\4cvefhyb\g3[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\2lcwzf76\g2[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\7gddxlhz\g3[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\2lcwzf76\g3[1
Registry Activity
One or more files with the name 5492.EXE creates or modifies the following registry keys and values:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAV 004 value:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAV 111 [REG_DWORD, value: 0095218F]
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Antivirus C:\Program Files\SAV\sav.exe
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAV 545 C:\Program Files\SAV\sav.exe
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAV 546 0000005492