Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Cloaked Malware
- Worm
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
DA.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)
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- Uses low level functions to hide itself from the user and from system/security processes
- Removes Scheduled Tasks from the Windows task queue
- Installs a browser helper object (BHO)
- Creates new folders on the system
DA.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Executed as a Process
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Created as a new Background Service on the machine
- Created as a process on disk
- Victim of a Heap Based Buffer Overflow Exploit
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Terminated as a Process
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
Country Of Origin
The filename DA.EXE was first seen on Jun 2 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Europe on Jun 2 2007
- South Africa on Jun 2 2007
- The United States on Jun 14 2007
- Canada on Oct 15 2007
- India on Jan 31 2009
- Italy on Jan 31 2009
- Malaysia on Feb 25 2010
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 126,976 bytes
- 253,952 bytes
- 114,688 bytes
- 143,360 bytes
- 184,320 bytes
- 158,857 bytes
- 504,488 bytes
File Type
The filename DA.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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