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MYSTERYCASEFILES.EXE
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
MYSTERYCASEFILES.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Executes a Process
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- 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
- Terminates Processes
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Enables an In Process Object/Server - Common with DLL Injections
- The process hooks code into all running processes which could allow it to take control of the system or record keyboard input, mouse activity and screen contents
MYSTERYCASEFILES.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Executed from Temporary Folders
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Terminated as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename MYSTERYCASEFILES.EXE was first seen on Jun 2 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Australia on Jun 2 2007
- South Africa on Jun 2 2007
- Europe on Jun 5 2007
- The United States on Jun 5 2007
- Spain on Jun 8 2007
- Italy on Mar 19 2008
- Turkey on Apr 22 2012
File Name Aliases
MYSTERYCASEFILES.EXE can also use the following file names:
- FORGOTTENRIDDLES_V113.EXE
- INTERPOL.EXE
- HIDDEN EXPEDITION EVEREST.EXE
- HIDDEN RELICS.EXE
- MYSTERYVILLE2.EXE
- THESCRUFFS.EXE
- HIDEXPTITANIC.EXE
- MYSTERY OF SHARK ISLAND.EXE
- MYSTERYPI.EXE
- PRIVATE EYE.EXE
- MYSTERYPI (1).EXE
- RAVENHEARST.EXE
- RAVENHEARST (1).EXE
- PRIMESUSPECTS.EXE
- DC77.EXE
- 98993545.DAT
- 74357362.DAT
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 13,070,336 bytes
- 250,112 bytes
- 129,536 bytes
- 274,432 bytes
- 12,320,768 bytes
- 700,416 bytes
File Type
The filename MYSTERYCASEFILES.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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