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Storm Trojan Adds YouTube Lures

Author: Dave Lewis
August 27, 2007 at 7:37 am · Filed under Malware

Websense is reporting that the Storm Trojan is now using YouTube links as a lure to pull in the unsuspecting.

The Storm Trojan / Bot continues to spread and is now using a YouTube video to lure users. The latest version has a variety of subjects and email bodies but now uses the filename video.exe.

Email subject example: Sheesh man what are you thinkin.

Upon connecting to the URL, which is referenced as a YouTube link but is actually a Storm IP, the same exploit code used in past attacks attempts to run

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    • rybolov said,

    August 27, 2007 @ 9:44 am

    Yeah, I got one of these this weekend and had to marvel at the social engineering technique. It read like this:

    Subject: are you kidding me? lol

    Dude I know thats you, someone emailed me a link to the video. take a look, lol…

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