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April Fool's Day & Storm

A new "joke" from the Storm Worm botnet right before April Fool's Day.

Consistent with their past behavior on having new propagation schemes right before important dates of national interest (start of NFL season, Halloween, Christmas Eve, ...), the botnet started to use a new social engineering theme right before April Fool's Day. The websites offer the actual bot binary with three different filenames (foolsday.exe, funny.exe, and kickme.exe), but they seems to actually be the same binary. I did not observe any drive-by download attack, thus it seems like they solely rely on social engineering - so don't fall for this hoax :-)
This entry was posted by Thorsten Holz on Monday, March 31. 2008 at 22:45. and is filed under malware. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own blog. All new comments are subject to moderation before being displayed.

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