Prevx Research Division
PROMO.EXE
Banking Info StealerYour PC may be infected. The presence of a file called PROMO.EXE is a possible sign of infection.
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware groups:
- Banking Info Stealer
- Fraudulent Security Program
- Worm
- Malware Downloader
File Behavior
PROMO.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Reads email address and phone book details
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Looks at the contents of the autoexec.bat file
- Uses DNS to retrieve the IP address for web sites
- Visits web sites on your PC without you knowing
PROMO.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Downloaded from covert web sites without the user knowing
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- This Process may have been infected by a file infecting virus
- Executed as a Process
- Copied to multiple locations on the system
- Created as a process on disk
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
Country Of Origin
The filename PROMO.EXE was first seen on Oct 14 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Prevx community:
- Canada on Oct 14 2007
- Spain on Dec 14 2008
- Germany on Dec 18 2008
- The United States on Feb 22 2010
File Name Aliases
PROMO.EXE can also use the following file names:
- USERINIT.EXE
- PROMO[n].EXE
- USERINIT_BAK.EXE
- PROMO_001.EXE
- DGMLP.EXE
- 13631.EXE
- USERINIT.EXE.ORIG
- 12808.EXE
- 66180841.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 30,208 bytes
- 32,256 bytes
- 109,056 bytes
- 1,296,860 bytes
- 4,525,408 bytes
- 43,008 bytes
- 83,826 bytes
Vendor, Product and Version Information
Files with the name PROMO.EXE have been seen to have the following Vendor, Product and Version Information in the file header:
- Etipt; Opdadaemyhveolfaylre;
- PeoplePC; PeoplePC Online Installation;
File Type
The filename PROMO.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
File Activity
One or more files with the name PROMO.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Opens/modifes c:\autoexec.bat
Network Activity
One or more files with the name PROMO.EXE performs the following network events:
- DNS Lookup mgjmnfgbdfb.com
- DNS Lookup216.240.148.9 mgjmnfgbdfb.com
- DNS Lookup imageempires.com
- DNS Lookup theimagesstudio.com
- DNS Lookup picturephotoweb.com
- DNS Lookup streaming-united.com
Website Activity
One or more files with the name PROMO.EXE interacts with the following web sites and pages. Web addresses have been deliberately modified to prevent unintentional use.
- mgjmnfgbdfb .com / fff9999 .php?aid=0&uid=88b1e97e3c1ac51a2aa3ce05b230a429ecaae96a&os=513
- imageempires .c
- theimagesstudio .c
- picturephotoweb .c
- streaming-united .com / file .ex
- Port 80 IP:216.240.148.9