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Michael Jacksons' unknown killer

Bogdan BOTEZATU

July 01, 2009

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Michael Jacksons' unknown killer

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:

 

MJ Malware

 

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:

 

MJ malware

 

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.

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Bogdan BOTEZATU

Bogdan is living his second childhood at Bitdefender as director of threat research.

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