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New Storm Worm: Waledacs

After several months of calm, a new Waledac campaign has just started. This time a significant date has been used as social engineering: the Independence Day celebrated on 4th of July.

Nearly 30 domains are being used to spread this malware using the following interface:

After clicking the video, a message will be displayed to download an executable file. The name it uses are the following: fireworks.exe, video.exe, install.exe, patch.exe, setup.exe and run.exe.

The affected computer sends spam messages like this:

 

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