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<blockquote data-quote="MalwareVirus" data-source="post: 79221" data-attributes="member: 2689">.PayPal ‘Notification of payment received’ themed emails serve malwareSticking to their proven tactic of systematically rotating the impersonated brands, cybercriminals are currently spamvertising millions of emails impersonating PayPal, in an attempt to trick its users into downloading and executing the malicious attachment found in the legitimate looking email.<img src="http://webrootblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/paypal_spam_email_malware.png?w=389&amp;h=344" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Detection rate for the malicious archive: MD5: 9c2f2cabf00bde87de47405b80ef83c1 – detected by 39 out of 43 antivirus scanners as Backdoor.Win32.Androm.fm. Once executed, the sample opens a backdoor on the infected host, allowing cybercriminals to gain complete control over the infected host.<a href="http://blog.webroot.com/2012/10/23/paypal-notification-of-payment-received-themed-emails-serve-malware/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WebrootThreatBlog+%28Webroot+Threat+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader" target="_blank">Read More</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="MalwareVirus, post: 79221, member: 2689"] [b].PayPal ‘Notification of payment received’ themed emails serve malware[/b] Sticking to their proven tactic of systematically rotating the impersonated brands, cybercriminals are currently spamvertising millions of emails impersonating PayPal, in an attempt to trick its users into downloading and executing the malicious attachment found in the legitimate looking email. [img]http://webrootblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/paypal_spam_email_malware.png?w=389&h=344[/img] Detection rate for the malicious archive: MD5: 9c2f2cabf00bde87de47405b80ef83c1 – detected by 39 out of 43 antivirus scanners as Backdoor.Win32.Androm.fm. Once executed, the sample opens a backdoor on the infected host, allowing cybercriminals to gain complete control over the infected host. [url=http://blog.webroot.com/2012/10/23/paypal-notification-of-payment-received-themed-emails-serve-malware/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WebrootThreatBlog+%28Webroot+Threat+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader]Read More[/url] [/QUOTE]

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