Emails with 30-day trials of McAfee VirusScan Plus contains trojan

MX Lab intercepted emails with the subject “McAfee VirusScan Plus” that contains a virus. The from address is in the format “xxx.be Member Services” <support@xxxxx.be> but the real SMTP from address comes primary from the domains rote-rose.com and rotary1918.com at this time of writing.

The body of the email:

Download a FREE 30-day Trial of MCAfee VirusScan Plus and Be Automaticaly Entered to Win

Installation file attached

The email contains the attachment setup.zip that contains the 144 kB large file setup.exe.

The trojan is known as Mal/Behav-321 (Sophos), TROJ_FAKEAV.SMXG (TrendMicro), W32/Trojan3.BWP (Authentium).

VirusTotal permlink and MD5: d3de1f75b8151c284ab04819994c0dc9.

2 Responses to Emails with 30-day trials of McAfee VirusScan Plus contains trojan

  1. Which version of the trial contains the virus sorry?

    And do you have a list of sites that have the trojan infected one?

  2. mxlab says:

    > Which version of the trial contains the virus sorry?

    There is no trial attached to the email, it’s a trojan.

    > And do you have a list of sites that have the trojan infected one?

    No, this threath is email based.

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