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Michael Jacksons' unknown killer

A few new spam waves (4 different strains) hit our inboxes since Michael Jacksons' death and guess who the main character was? Malware writers are fast at adapting news to spread their own evil creations or schemes and this event was no different.

1. Advertising sexual enhancement drugs

 The email body of this spam message looks like this:

            Michael Jackson dead? NO!!!

            http://ad[removed]ous.com/

            The subject of the message is: Michael Jackson dead? NO!!!

            The advertised website looked like this:

 

 

2. Spreading malware

The body of this spam message looked like this:

            Michael Jackson Was Killed...

            But Who Killed Michael Jackson?

            Visit X-Files to see the answer:

            http://MJac[removed]ij.com/x-files

            The subject of the message is: Who killed Michael Jackson?

            The target website looked like this:

 

 

The file presented as "the file with secret information" about Michael Jacksons' killer is nothing but a recycled ZBot, more specifically Trojan.Spy.Zbot.UI, detected as Trojan.Spy.ZBot.VG this time. ZBot is known to transform the infected machines into spaming relays, sending hundreds of messages without the users knowledge or consent, consuming valuable network and computing resources.