Malicious Code: Halloween Deception

FYI…

- http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/alert…php?AlertID=813
October 29, 2007 - "Websense® Security Labs™ has discovered a new Trojan Horse information stealer that is being emailed out as a Halloween Greeting Card in Mexico. To date we have seen four unique sites being spammed out all with the same binary file. They were in Korea, Brazil, and Russia, and were all up and running at the time of this alert. The file is called "hallowenDay.exe" and has an MD5 of (65cd5a35bc70075f86cb6404f54d67b8). It is also poorly detected by anti-virus signatures. Assuming users access the site and select to run the file a Trojan Horse is downloaded onto their machine which is designed to steal banking information from users, the file appears to also be packed with a unique custom packer. We expect to see additional email lures and malicious websites on our radar with Halloween night quickly approaching. The email is written in HTML and has a variety of subject lines…"

(Screenshot available at the URL above.)

FYI…

Trick or Treat with Stormy Halloween
- http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001304.html
October 30, 2007 - "New tactics from the Storm gang can be seen as they celebrate with Halloween… With an unpatched system, visiting the site will trigger an exploit to automatically download and execute a malicious file. The new filename is halloween.exe. We already detect this as Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.LJ . This may be a Trick, and a bad Treat from the Storm gang so remember to keep your databases updated."

(Screenshot available at the URL above.)

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