Prevx Research Division
DEVCON.EXE
System Back DoorIt is possible that your PC could be infected. The file name DEVCON.EXE is used by both safe and unsafe programs.
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:
- System Back Door
File Behavior
DEVCON.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is polymorphic and can change its structure
- Executes a Process
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- This process creates other processes on disk
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Adds a Registry Key (RUNONCE) to auto start Programs on system start up
- Changes DNS server settings which could enable phishing/pharming attacks using web site redirection
- Modifies the Systems Winsock LSP which could allow control over all communications of the system
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- Uses low level functions to hide itself from the user and from system/security processes
DEVCON.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Executed from Temporary Folders
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- 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 DEVCON.EXE was first seen on Jun 13 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Europe on Jun 13 2007
- Hungary on Jun 13 2007
- Spain on Mar 14 2008
- Italy on Mar 14 2008
- Taiwan on Oct 6 2008
- Hong Kong on Oct 6 2008
- The United States on Feb 24 2009
- Colombia on Jul 23 2009
- Turkey on May 25 2012
File Name Aliases
DEVCON.EXE can also use the following file names:
- DEVCON - THREAT.EXE
- NCRCON.EXE
- DEVCON.DLL
- DCX86.EXE
- DEVCON_X86.EXE
- DEVCON_V86.EXE
- ơɝ
- 89426024.SVD
- 88233572.EXE
- 26557699.DAT
- 92387657.EXE
- 15125243.EXE
- 86236991.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 54,272 bytes
- 55,808 bytes
- 18,944 bytes
- 77,824 bytes
- 57,396 bytes
- 77,312 bytes
- 161,499 bytes
File Type
The filename DEVCON.EXE refers to many versions of an object.
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