File Investigation Report
5491.EXE
Fraudulent Security ProgramYour PC may be infected. The presence of a file called 5491.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:
- Fraudulent Security Program
- Worm
File Behavior
5491.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Executes a Process
- This process creates other processes on disk
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Creates system tray popups, messages, errors and security warnings
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
5491.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Executed from Temporary Folders
- Executed as a Process
- Created by processes which appear to be checking for interception by security products
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Terminated as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename 5491.EXE was first seen on Sep 8 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Prevx community:
- Israel on Sep 8 2008
- Europe on Sep 8 2008
- The United States on Sep 22 2008
- on Sep 22 2008
File Name Aliases
5491.EXE can also use the following file names:
- 5491[1].EXE
- 5491[2].EXE
- 4EE05DE7-FBAF-471C-9281-672B58DD5064_5491.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 257,506 bytes
- 1,005,239 bytes
- 245,760 bytes
- 927,744 bytes
Vendor, Product and Version Information
These files have no vendor, product or version information specified in the file header.
File Type
The filename 5491.EXE is used by multiple object types including executable programs,self extracting compressed files.
File Activity
One or more files with the name 5491.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- create folder C:\Program Files\SAV
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\desktop\System Antivirus 2008.lnk
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\135[1]
- Copies filec:\program files\sav\sav.cpl to c:\windows\system32\sav.cpl
- Deletes c:\program files\sav\sav.ooo
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\lb[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\ylpudr18\l[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\s[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\y2[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\ylpudr18\y1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\v1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\y3[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\ylpudr18\r[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\tb1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\tb2[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\ylpudr18\sp[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\pb2[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\pb1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\ylpudr18\pb4[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\pb3[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\pr[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\ylpudr18\l1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\l11[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\l2[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\ylpudr18\l3[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\b1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\b2[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\ylpudr18\b3[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\b4[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\a[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\ylpudr18\133[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\w1[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\w2[1]
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\ylpudr18\g1[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\g1[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\ylpudr18\g2[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\g1[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\g2[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\g2[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\fdbavlvv\g3[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\ylpudr18\g3[1
- Creates c:\documents and settings\user\local settings\temporary internet files\content.ie5\63hy0ita\g3[1
Registry Activity
One or more files with the name 5491.EXE creates or modifies the following registry keys and values:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAV 004 value:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAV 111 [REG_DWORD, value: 0095218F]
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Antivirus C:\Program Files\SAV\sav.exe
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAV 545 C:\Program Files\SAV\sav.exe
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAV 546 0000005491