File Investigation Report
KTNQUO.EXE
WormPC Cleanup in 3 Easy Steps
Use Prevx 3.0 to remove KTNQUO.EXE, along with any other viruses, spyware, adware, trojans, rootkits, worms, information stealers, keyloggers, bots, and other form of malicious threat that may reside on your PC.
- Think your PC might be Infected? Scan Now Prevx 3.0 will scan your PC in seconds to inform you whether your PC is clean or infected.
- Malware Removal Prevx 3.0 removes adware infections for free. More complicated infections require purchase of a malware removal license.
- Expert Assistance In the rare occurence that Prevx 3.0 malware removal fails - a Prevx Engineer will connect to your PC and manually disinfect.
- Money Back Guarantee for Individual Users If within the first 14 days, the Prevx Engineer finds it impossible to clean an infection from your PC, we give you your money back.
Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware groups:
- Worm
- Cloaked Malware
File Behavior
KTNQUO.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Creates a new Background Service on the machine
- Loads and Executes a System Driver File
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- Copies files
- Looks at the contents of the autoexec.bat file
- Reads email address and phone book details
- Uses DNS to retrieve the IP address for web sites
- Visits web sites on your PC without you knowing
KTNQUO.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Created as a process on disk
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
- Executed as a Process
- This program is often downloaded from the web
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
Country Of Origin
The filename KTNQUO.EXE was first seen on Sep 5 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Prevx community:
- The EUROPEAN UNION on Sep 5 2008
- SPAIN on Sep 5 2008
- MALAYSIA on Sep 5 2008
- The UNITED STATES on Sep 5 2008
- SINGAPORE on Sep 7 2008
- URUGUAY on Sep 23 2008
File Name Aliases
KTNQUO.EXE can also use the following file names:
- DDR.EXE
- CKVO.EXE
- HELP.EXE
- KTNQUO.EXE.BAK
- KK3.BAT
- YBJ8DF.EXE
- OV.CMD
- PH.COM
- 79176263.DAT
- R1Y1.BAT
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 126,076 bytes
- 92,932 bytes
- 92,213 bytes
- 113,664 bytes
- 170,496 bytes
File Type
The filename KTNQUO.EXE is used by multiple object types including objects,executable programs.
File Activity
One or more files with the name KTNQUO.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Creates c:\windows\system32\drivers\klif.sys
- Deletes c:\windows\system32\drivers\klif.sys
- Deletes c:\windows\system32\ckvo.exe
- Deletes c:\windows\system32\ckvo0.dll
- Creates c:\windows\system32\ckvo0.dll
- Deletes c:\ktnquo.ex
- Copies filec:\windows\system32\ckvo.exe to c:\ktnquo.ex
- Deletes c:\autorun.in
- Creates c:\autorun.in
- Deletes d:\ktnquo.ex
- Copies filec:\windows\system32\ckvo.exe to d:\ktnquo.ex
- Deletes d:\autorun.in
- Creates d:\autorun.in
- Deletes c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\help1.rar
- Opens/modifes c:\autoexec.bat
- Creates c:\docume~1\user\locals~1\temp\help1.rar
Website Activity
One or more files with the name KTNQUO.EXE interacts with the following web sites and pages. Web addresses have been deliberately modified to prevent unintentional use.
- TCP:127.0.0.1:1098 Port:19
- Port 80 IP:60.169.1.92
- TCP:127.0.0.1:1100 Port:18
PCMag.com Editors' Choice Award Logo is a trademark of Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. Used under license.