No, it’s not about the Disney’s movie that you can see today at cinemas. There has been a massive sending of a message with a file attached that is supposed to be the movie trailer, the name of the file is:
Official_Trailer_Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_At_World’s_End.exe
We have received some hundreds samples proactively blocked by TruPrevent, most of them coming from Italy. Once you run the file (detected as Trj/Pirabbean.A), it shows you the following message:
At the same time, it downloads & installs a dialer, and also creates two shortcuts in the desktop:
It also changes some settings of Internet Explorer (adding 2 URLs in the Trusted Sites). In case you visit those URLs it will install you some more dialers.
Posted under Malware Alerts
This post was written by Luis Corrons on May 25, 2007
