File Investigation Report
VPANELE.COM
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Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware group:
- Worm
File Behavior
VPANELE.COM has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- This Process is a file infector which modifies program files to include a copy of the infection
- Executes a Process
- Looks at the contents of the autoexec.bat file
- Reads email address and phone book details
- Uses your PC to connect to Chat rooms
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- This process creates other processes on disk
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Adds a Registry Key (RUN) to auto start Programs on system start up
- Can make outbound communication to other computers, IM chat rooms and other services using IRC protocols
- Creates a new Background Service on the machine
VPANELE.COM has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Executed as a Process
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
- Created by processes which appear to be checking for interception by security products
- Created as a process on disk
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
Country Of Origin
The filename VPANELE.COM was first seen on Aug 13 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Prevx community:
- SPAIN on Aug 13 2008
- The UNITED KINGDOM on Aug 13 2008
File Name Aliases
VPANELE.COM can also use the following file names:
- 29632998.EXE
- 79019267.EXE
- 52327806.DAT
- 65527337.DAT
- 22519812.DAT
- 81963936.DAT
- 29696735.DAT
- 98516037.DAT
- 26417676.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 101,376 bytes
- 98,816 bytes
- 121,856 bytes
- 99,328 bytes
File Type
The filename VPANELE.COM refers to many versions of an executable program.
File Activity
One or more files with the name VPANELE.COM creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Creates c:\temp.bat
- Creates c:\temp.bat
- Copies filec:\8284463.exe to c:\windows\system32\vPanele.com
- Creates c:\docume~1\jim\locals~1\temp\1.reg
- Deletes c:\docume~1\jim\locals~1\temp\1.reg
- Deletes c:\temp.bat
- Opens/modifes c:\autoexec.bat
Website Activity
One or more files with the name VPANELE.COM interacts with the following web sites and pages. Web addresses have been deliberately modified to prevent unintentional use.
- TCP:63.173.172.98:6668 Port:18
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