Today, our friends at Trend Micro blogged about a new attack vector using Microsoft Word documents. We saw this as well last week, and have written a detection for the dropped trojan.
It’s not just a “lawsuit” that’s being spammed, we also picked up another form of this attack in our honeypots over the weekend:
When you open the Word document, you see a “PDF”, but it’s actually not. It’s a JPG, which links to an executable.
In Word 2007, it’s kind of like the Amish virus: The user has to really want to get infected.
Latest VirusTotal detection here.
| File COMPLA_1.EXE received on 2010.03.29 23:00:50 (UTC) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | Version | Last Update | Result |
| AntiVir | 7.10.5.248 | 2010.03.29 | TR/Dropper.Gen |
| Avast | 4.8.1351.0 | 2010.03.29 | Win32:Malware-gen |
| Avast5 | 5.0.332.0 | 2010.03.29 | Win32:Malware-gen |
| BitDefender | 7.2 | 2010.03.29 | Trojan.Downloader.JMZC |
| F-Secure | 9.0.15370.0 | 2010.03.30 | Trojan-Downloader:W32/Lapurd.E |
| GData | 19 | 2010.03.29 | Trojan.Downloader.JMZC |
| McAfee+Artemis | 5935 | 2010.03.29 | Artemis!60DF604563A1 |
| McAfee-GW-Edition | 6.8.5 | 2010.03.29 | Trojan.Dropper.Gen |
| Microsoft | 1.5605 | 2010.03.30 | Trojan:Win32/Meredrop |
| Prevx | 3.0 | 2010.03.30 | High Risk Fraudulent Security Program |
| Sophos | 4.52.0 | 2010.03.30 | Sus/UnkPack-C |
| Sunbelt | 6114 | 2010.03.30 | Trojan-Downloader |
| Symantec | 20091.2.0.41 | 2010.03.30 | Backdoor.Trojan |