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Re: [klmtfs () pridemail com: Your Online Greeting Awaits You!]


From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson () treachery net>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:58:28 -0700 (PDT)

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On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 diphen () agitation net wrote: 

Has anyone run across this before?

        I'm sure many here would agree that this may be an old trick with
a new face.  While I don't yet have enough information to confirm that
this is the product of a trojan, several indicators seem to point to as
much... 

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0

        Outlook.  Guh.  The favored vector of trojan dissemination.

Hello!  We're writing to let you know that someone has sent you a greeting. 

        The impersonal (and over-friendly) text.

http://www.GreetingCardsUSA.cc?aspickup.pd?i=710242162&m=1732&rr=y 

        Appropriately long URL that bounces you around and eventually goes
to an IP address for dissemination of a binary.  Present most users with a
long URL and their eyes typically glaze over and they just blindly click
on it.  About the only thing that surprises me is that no '@' semantic
attack was used. 

        I'll have to see about collecting a copy of the binary.  Until
such time, this should probably be considered a *possible* trojan that
should be ruled out.  Fortunately, it's a Sunday, so we've got a little
time before the Monday morning zombies come rolling in and contributing
to the problem.  :)

        Time to start a new pot of coffee!  Yay.

- -Jay

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