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Home   »   Bad Sites   »   Another NUWAR caught on video

Another NUWAR caught on video

  • Posted on:August 29, 2007 at 4:10 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Jovi Umawing (Technical Communications)
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After ECARD.EXE, PATCH.EXE and MSDATAACCESS.EXE now comes VIDEO.EXE. Trend Micro Senior Threat Research Consultant Ivan Macalintal says it was just a matter of time.



He reports of receiving in his inbox what could be a rehash of the infamous Storm Trojan, a.k.a. NUWAR, which raged during the first quarter of this year and which has since been constantly evolving. Its latest trick is to piggyback on the popularity of YouTube, with spammed email messages containing links supposedly leading to a YouTube video file. The said email contains the following details:



Subject: are you kidding me? lol

Message body:
Man you have got to tell me where you picked her up. I saw this on the web, it has to be you. take a look, lol…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v={BLOCKED}kBbE





Once a user falls for this social engineering technique and does click on the link, he/she is redirected to a certain IP address, in this case http://{BLOCKED}.190.132, which is obviously not YouTube but instead contains HTML script tags that use a YouTube logo and the following message:



Your Download Should Begin Shortly. If your download does not start in approximately 15 seconds, you can click here to launch the download and then press Run.



The link eventually leads users into downloading the malicious file named VIDEO.EXE.

TrendLabs detects the said file as WORM_ZHELATI.MAB. Users are advised to be wary of email messages of this nature.

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