Prevx Research Division
PROTECT.SYS
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Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware groups:
- Rootkit
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
PROTECT.SYS has been seen to perform the following behavior:
PROTECT.SYS has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a new Background Service on the machine
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename PROTECT.SYS was first seen on Jun 4 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Europe on Jun 4 2007
- China on Jun 4 2007
- Spain on Aug 28 2007
- Brazil on Oct 23 2007
- South Africa on Feb 10 2009
- Korea, Republic of on Mar 30 2011
File Name Aliases
PROTECT.SYS can also use the following file names:
- 86478584.EX
- 35918274.SYS
- 44836671.SVD
- 89943312.EXE
- 84460218.EX_
- 33398593.DAT
- 62880982.DAT
- 90799152.DAT
- 71094574.SYS
- 90130936.SYS
- 10963277.DAT
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 18,944 bytes
- 73,728 bytes
- 16,000 bytes
- 20,608 bytes
- 121,216 bytes
File Type
The filename PROTECT.SYS is used by multiple object types including objects,Dynamic Link LIbraries.
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