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PLANT TYCOON.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Worm
- Malware Downloader
File Behavior
PLANT TYCOON.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Enables an In Process Object/Server - Common with DLL Injections
- Executes a Process
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Terminates Processes
- Adds products to the system registry
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- This Process is a file infector which modifies program files to include a copy of the infection
- Checks for the use of debuggers
- Runs Javascript code
- This Process uses Anti Dissasembly Tricks to avoid analysis by security products
- The Process is polymorphic and can change its structure
- This Process Contains User Mode Rootkit Functionality and can hide itself from the running process list
PLANT TYCOON.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Executed as a Process
- Created as a process on disk
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Terminated as a Process
- Deleted as a process from disk
Country Of Origin
The filename PLANT TYCOON.EXE was first seen on Sep 21 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Europe on Sep 21 2007
- The United States on Sep 29 2007
- South Africa on May 11 2012
File Name Aliases
PLANT TYCOON.EXE can also use the following file names:
- PLANT TYCOON.EXE.BAK
- VIRTUAL VILLAGERS - THE LOST CHILDREN.EXE
- 92458197.SVD
- 98642276.SVD
- 22435726.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 1,036,288 bytes
- 1,609,728 bytes
- 2,610,224 bytes
- 335,872 bytes
File Type
The filename PLANT TYCOON.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
File Activity
One or more files with the name PLANT TYCOON.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\HTM15.tmp
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