Spam message inside a ZIP file

Spammer often use new techniques in order to deliver the message to the recipient without being catched by email security solutions. Today, one of such spam emails did caught our attention because of the original technique that has been used.

The spam email had the subject “Your wife photos attached”, a very short body content ” Your wife photos” and the attached file rooster.zip.

At first, we thought this was some new email security treath so we investigated the ZIP archive. Once extracted the file rooster.jpg was available. The filename does not end with .exe or the combination of many spaces with at the end .exe so we opened the JPEG and got this spam advertisment for Viagra, Cialis and VPXL.

The instructions, if you are interested, is to go to med242.ru which leads to the web site of the Canadian Pharmacy.

I can understand that spammers try different techniques but this one is, in my humble opinion, not a very good one. What a hassle to read the message.