Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered a substantial number of spam messages utilizing a reliable social engineering trick that lures users to download a Microsoft critical security update.
The message uses an open redirect at the legitimate shopping site shopping.***.com; the redirect forwards users to a malicious URL offering to download a malicious executable. The malicious hostname is a lengthy one embedding 62 characters, and uses the sub-domain update.microsoft.com. Users who open this file will have their desktop infected with a Backdoor.
Here is what the redirect looks like inside the spam messages: hXXp://shopping.***.com/go.nhn?url=hXXp%3A%2F%2Fupdate%2Emicrosoft%2Ecom%2E<removed>%2Enet
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The message uses an open redirect at the legitimate shopping site shopping.***.com; the redirect forwards users to a malicious URL offering to download a malicious executable. The malicious hostname is a lengthy one embedding 62 characters, and uses the sub-domain update.microsoft.com. Users who open this file will have their desktop infected with a Backdoor.
Here is what the redirect looks like inside the spam messages: hXXp://shopping.***.com/go.nhn?url=hXXp%3A%2F%2Fupdate%2Emicrosoft%2Ecom%2E<removed>%2Enet
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