Merry Christmas, Idiot
- Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 1:59
- Threat Research
It's not a huge surprise that we are seeing some malware spam runs where the malicious attachment attempts to portray itself as a Christmas Greeting of some sort.Here's an example from today (md5: C670165AE6DFA8318F0EA795B1D3AD55). This one is actually a Zapchast (IRC bot variant).The "Christmas Card" requires it's own "special version" of Flash to be installed — flashplayer2009.exe — which is the malware itself.Once ready, it will display this friendly message written in Universal Gibberish.Pay attention to the cheerful filename used for this message — idiot.jpg.F-Secure Anti-virus detects and removes this as Backdoor.IRC.Zapchast.AVL. On 17/12/09 At 08:20 AM