Another ecard twist

Filed Under: Malware, SophosLabs, Spam

In the last hour, another huge 'ecard' spamming run has been detected by SophosLabs. Aside from the usual ecard-related social engineering, some of the messages now masquerade as links to YouTube videos, for example:

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Of course, the links are not to YouTube, but to the IP address of compromised machines. Clicking on the link will load a web page containing the usual embedded malicious script and manual link to the Dorf malware, for example:

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Happily, the malware involved is proactively detected as Troj/JSXor-Gen (malicious script) and Mal/Dorf-E (Trojan intended to be installed) so there is no need for a detection update to be pushed out at this time.

About the author

Fraser is one of the Principal Virus Researchers in SophosLabs. He has been working for Sophos since 2006, and his main interest is in web related threats.