Malware gives you a lot of love, or not?
June 3, 2008 Leave a Comment
Quite some “love” related messages are present in our global message logs. There is a malware outbreak going on at the moment and some campaigns are related to “love”.
The messages are simple, have subjects like “Lost In Love”, “I belong to you”, “All I need is You” and contain a romantic image. This malware site drops a Storm worm variant known as Zhelatin or Nuwar on your desktop.
A variant on this is where the spam message contains “I love you so much! http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/”. The URL allows for a direct IP based connection to a server that is hosting the malware.
Another “love” campaign has the subject “Paris Hilton loves you too” and contains “You now know the importance of an increased length” in the body a link to a web site to increase your… Think you’ll get the idea? Okay then.
Not “love” related but potential dangerous mailware are the messages with the subject “Your video file e.vanherck”. The subject contains the user part of an email address. The URL allows you to download the video.exe, the Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Exchanger.cq. A regular client in the malware world.
