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Home   »   Author / Loucif Kharouni (Senior Threat Researcher)

Loucif Kharouni

Senior Threat Researcher

How to Get Cash… and Malware

  • Posted on:February 5, 2008
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware
  • Posted by:
    Loucif Kharouni (Senior Threat Researcher)
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While checking personal spam emails that I received today, my interest was drawn by a certain email claiming that users can get $2400 by downloading the casino application: Once you click on the link hxxp://bearte.net.cn, you are sent to this Web page: This Web page asks you to download a file named InstallCasinoV2.exe. The said…

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Another Italian Job… or a Gooogle Job?

  • Posted on:February 1, 2008
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware
  • Posted by:
    Loucif Kharouni (Senior Threat Researcher)
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Yesterday we received reports of a malicious Web site that targets Italian users. This particular site purports to be a tour and travel operator for India: The malicious source is similar to: <object classid=”clsid:0F5FBC88-CC6A-48e8-B037-E37763D0482B” codebase=”http://www.{BLOCKED}elettronici.com/indiatouroperator/registrazione.exe“> </object> The file registrazione.exe is detected as TROJ_AGENT.AAFY, and the URL that it hosts is detected as HTML_AGENT.AAFX. Once the…

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GOOGLE AJAX API Hooked

  • Posted on:February 20, 2007
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Posted by:
    Loucif Kharouni (Senior Threat Researcher)
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Note: Click on the pictures to see the full image. Last week I received a malicious file detected as TROJ_LOWZONES.CO which is a component of the Gromozon chain malware. After having analyzed and executed the file, I noticed that the malware modifies IE start page (not really surprising) to h_ttp://www.gooogle.bz (where bz stands for Belize…

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Italian Job Vs Italian .Bizness

  • Posted on:December 8, 2006
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Posted by:
    Loucif Kharouni (Senior Threat Researcher)
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I’m writing down this post to let you know about targeted attacks we’re facing in Europe, especially in Italy.The “Italian Job”, (a.k.a. Linkoptimizer, a.k.a. Gromozon) appears to be orchestrated by a well-organized gang, using several aliases to avoid recognition but in the end, still refers to the same malware chain.An infection by Linkoptimizer could triggered…

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