Valentine's Day Worm

by Albin on January 27th, 2009 in Security Alert.

Win32.Worm.Waledac spreads itself using Valentine's Day "advertising" as the distribution method. It can be found on a website full of hearts with the text Guess, which one is for you? as picture 1 shows.

Picture 1

This domain is constructed for entice users to click on some of the hearts. The result of a "click" will be that a file called love.exe is offered to download. This file belongs to the Win32.Worm.Waledac family and if the user chooses to execute it, additional malicious files will be downloaded in stealth.

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After a few minutes the known rogue MS Antispyware 2009 will appear and run on the system without users permission. It's a chain of social engineering tricks. So be careful when visiting Valentines Day sites, especially if the download has the extension of .exe .

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