The sudden death of Michael Jackson caused not only an outpouring emotions from his family, friends, and fans, but also a spread of spam mails that took advantage of this tragic event. Even after his memorial service last July 7, 2009, spammers are clearly not resting as they try to spread other malicious spam messages.

We recently acquired a Portuguese spam mail that attracts the people by stating that they have the pictures from the memorial service of Michael Jackson. Below is the screenshot of the mail:

However, once you click either seu grandes album de fotos (great album for your photos), or fotos do astro (photos of the star), or the picture in the mail, it will redirect to a blank site with a window that asks the user to save an .exe file named foto.exe:

This clearly does not contain the pictures, as these do not need an .exe file for it to be viewed.

All aspects of the Smart Protection Network work together to help neutralize this threat. The spam messages and malicious website involved are all blocked, and the file foto.exe is detected as TROJ_DLOADER.ZRC.

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