Prevx Research Division
"FFSETTINGS.EXE"
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Cloaked Malware
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
FFSETTINGS.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Disables the Notification Balloon for the Windows Security Center
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Executes a Process
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Changes the Windows Security Center to stop Antivirus status alerts from being displayed
- Changes the Windows Security Center to stop Firewall status alerts from being displayed
- Changes the Windows Security Center to stop Firewall override alerts from being displayed
- Changes the Windows Security Center to stop warnings from being displayed if automatic Windows Updates are not enabled
- Injects code into other processes
FFSETTINGS.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Added as a Registry Key (RUNONCE) to auto start Programs on system start up
- Deleted as a process from disk
Country Of Origin
The filename FFSETTINGS.EXE was first seen on Jul 27 2009 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Netherlands on Jul 27 2009
- Spain on Aug 10 2009
- Europe on Oct 8 2009
- Saudi Arabia on Oct 8 2009
- Argentina on Jan 18 2010
- The United Kingdom on Nov 25 2010
- Italy on Dec 16 2010
- Turkey on May 19 2012
File Name Aliases
FFSETTINGS.EXE can also use the following file names:
- M6|FFSETTINGS.EXE
- 27334184.EXE
- 37197466.EXE
- 83908527.EXE
- 59087332.EXE
- 55271971.EXE
- 37094287.DAT
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 141,248 bytes
- 208,896 bytes
- 142,736 bytes
- 210,880 bytes
- 135,168 bytes
- 135,680 bytes
File Type
The filename FFSETTINGS.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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