Return Of The Dorfs: A Christmas Special
Today spamtraps monitored by SophosLabs received samples of a malware campaign spammed out using the combination of the holiday season, and the promise of a “Personal Holiday Strip Show” in an attempt to infect computers. The format of the messages were very similar to previous malware campaigns we’ve detected over the past 8-10 months:
Many varying subject lines, generic enough to entice recipients to view the message.
The message body contained thousands of variations, with a greeting and single paragraph, all attempting to direct the user to the same specific website.
The website itself contained images of scantily clad women with a title of “Mrs. Claus Gone Wild”. The images and “Download for free now!” button both linked to an executable detected as W32/Dorf-AE
This is just yet another example of Malware writers/Spammers exploiting current world news or holidays, in an attempt to grow their “Botnets”.
Posted on December 24th, 2007 by Brett Cove, SophosLabs, CanadaFiled under: Malware, Spam
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