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Mouse Over, Macro: Spam Run in Europe Uses Hover Action to Deliver Banking Trojan

  • Posted on:June 9, 2017 at 1:13 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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We found another unique method being used to deliver malware—abusing the action that happens when simply hovering the mouse’s pointer over a hyperlinked picture or text in a PowerPoint slideshow. This technique is employed by a Trojan downloader (detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_POWHOV.A and P2KM_POWHOV.A), which we’ve uncovered in a recent spam email campaign in the EMEA region, especially organizations in the U.K., Poland, Netherlands, and Sweden. Affected industries include manufacturing, device fabrication, education, logistics, and pyrotechnics.

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Tags: GootkitMouseoverOTLARD

Fake Judicial Spam Leads to Backdoor with Fake Certificate Authority

  • Posted on:March 30, 2015 at 4:20 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Cedric Pernet (Threat Researcher) and Dark Luo/Kenney Lu (Threats Analysts)
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Recently, we’ve come across an interesting spam campaign aimed at French users. The campaign itself uses a well-crafted lure that is likely to catch the attention of its would-be victims. In addition, the malware used – the GootKit backdoor – contains several unusual technical characteristics. Both of these highlight how this campaign was quite well thought-out…

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Tags: FranceGootkitjudicial spam

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