Free FakeAV at Virus-Total (That’s not VirusTotal)

VirusTotal has been well known to most readers of the blog. It’s a free virus and malware online scan service which allows submitters to test a particular file against a multitude of malware scanners. So, it’s not highly surprising that malware authors would try to use that name to further their gain.
Today we came across such a sample arriving at one of our spamtraps through a car-related forum. The message looks like this:
Subject: Warning!
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL!
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Dear ,
You have received a new private message at Forum from , entitled “Warning!”.
To read the original version, respond to, or delete this message, you must log in here:
http://
This is the message that was sent:
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Dear,
There are viruses’ activities from your computer! Highly recommend you to scan your computer for malicious and potentially unwanted software. If you do not follow this, I will have to make a complaint to your Internet Service Provider with attached log file (your IP address, etc.). If you want to find a report about your computer’s security and solve every problem with it, please click here: http://www.virus-total./detected/ This is an online service that you can use for free spyware removal. Use it to scan your computer to help protect, clean, and keep your computer running at its best. Use the free scan to check for and (continue reading...)