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CI3.EXE
Malicious SoftwareIt is possible that your PC could be infected. The file name CI3.EXE is used by both safe and unsafe programs.
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
CI3.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Executes a Process
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- Terminates Processes
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Adds products to the system registry
- The process hooks code into all running processes which could allow it to take control of the system or record keyboard input, mouse activity and screen contents
- This Process uses Anti Dissasembly Tricks to avoid analysis by security products
- The Process is polymorphic and can change its structure
- This Process Contains User Mode Rootkit Functionality and can hide itself from the running process list
CI3.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Terminated as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename CI3.EXE was first seen on Jun 19 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Prevx community:
- Spain on Jun 19 2007
- Bulgaria on Jun 19 2007
- The United States on Oct 10 2007
- France on Oct 10 2007
- Turkey on Apr 5 2008
- Switzerland on Apr 13 2008
- Taiwan on May 30 2008
- Poland on Dec 30 2008
- Uruguay on Jan 20 2009
- Zambia on May 1 2013
File Name Aliases
CI3.EXE can also use the following file names:
- CHICKENINVADERS2.EXE
- EGYPTOID.EXE
- LOCO.EXE
- LASTGALAXYHERO.EXE
- CI3.EXE.BAK
- MAD MAGIC.EXE
- CI3.EXE.BAK.EXE
- LASTGALAXYHERO.EXE.BAK
- EGYPTOID.EXE.BAK
- LOCO.EXE.BAK
- CHICKENINVADERS2.EXE.BAK
- CHIKEN INVADERS 3.EXE
- N0|LASTGALAXYHERO.EXE
- ISLANDWARS2.EXE
- X.EXE
- 57431938.EX
- DC142.EXE
- DC53.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 258,048 bytes
- 1,167,360 bytes
- 258,304 bytes
- 233,472 bytes
- 262,144 bytes
- 1,708,032 bytes
- 1,150,976 bytes
Vendor, Product and Version Information
Files with the name CI3.EXE have been seen to have the following Vendor, Product and Version Information in the file header:
- InterAction studios; CI3; 1, 0, 0, 1
- InterAction studios; Chicken Invaders ROTY; 1, 0, 0, 1
File Type
The filename CI3.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.