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HDD REGENERATOR.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
HDD REGENERATOR.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
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- Executes a Process
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Creates system tray popups, messages, errors and security warnings
HDD REGENERATOR.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
- Created by processes which appear to be checking for interception by security products
Country Of Origin
The filename HDD REGENERATOR.EXE was first seen on Jun 15 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- France on Jun 15 2007
- Taiwan on Jun 15 2007
- Spain on Jul 22 2008
- Turkey on Nov 15 2008
- Greece on Jun 17 2009
- Thailand on Sep 9 2010
- The United States on Sep 9 2010
- Mexico on Apr 12 2012
File Name Aliases
HDD REGENERATOR.EXE can also use the following file names:
- HDD REGEN.EXE
- N1|HDD REGENERATOR.EXE
- M4|31906667.EXE
- 72869656
- DC2612.EXE
- HDD REGENERATOR.EXE.BAK2
- 04595021
- 66175972.DAT
- 70188774.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 2,421,016 bytes
- 663,552 bytes
- 814,382 bytes
- 634,880 bytes
- 710,246 bytes
- 300,530 bytes
- 4,864,937 bytes
File Type
The filename HDD REGENERATOR.EXE is used by multiple object types including executable programs,objects.
File Activity
One or more files with the name HDD REGENERATOR.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Opens/modifes c:\autoexec.bat
- Deletes c:\documents and settings\jim\application data\thinstall\hdd regenerator\Registry.rw.
- Creates c:\documents and settings\jim\application data\thinstall\hdd regenerator\Registry.rw.
- Moves c:\documents and settings\jim\application data\thinstall\hdd regenerator\Registry.rw. to c:\documents and settings\jim\application data\thinstall\hdd regenerator\Registry.rw.
- Creates c:\documents and settings\jim\application data\thinstall\hdd regenerator\Registry.tvr
- Deletes c:\documents and settings\jim\application data\thinstall\hdd regenerator\Registry.tvr
- Moves c:\documents and settings\jim\application data\thinstall\hdd regenerator\Registry.tvr to c:\documents and settings\jim\application data\thinstall\hdd regenerator\Registry.tvr
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