It was a given that malware writers would roll out a new Valentine's Day campaign, writes Rebecca Steinberg Herson, VP of Marketing for Commtouch, in her blog.
"But who knew they could be such creative artists with the pictures they choose to deliver their malicious software?" she asks.
According to Herson's blog, the e-mail message is quite simple, containing just a short message (eg, "You're my Valentine", "Valentine Friends", "A Hearty Wish"), and a hyperlink to a specific IP address.
"When the user clicks through the hyperlink, s/he is brought to another simple Web page, with some nicely designed artwork on it. The site tries to automatically download a malware executable, valentine.exe.
"We ran this executable through VirusTotal, and found that several AV engines do not catch it yet."
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