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Phishing-Malware Bait: Brazilian Income Tax Return | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro
March 26th, 2008 by Aivee Cortez
The Web site of the Ministry of Finance in Brazil, Ministerio da Fazenda, has become the new target of the bad guys. Trend Micro Content Security Team found a phishing email that purports itself as a legitimate email coming from the said financial institution.
It asks recipients to confirm that their income tax return that has not been delivered. The confirmation method is by clicking the hyperlink message, which leads to the URL hxxp://www.c3.hu/~vadkert//tagok/formulario.php. However, instead of displaying an ordinary phishing Web site, it downloads a malicious executable file.
The said file is already detected by Trend Micro as POSSIBLE_BANLD- 1, while the malicious URL has already been added on the database and will be blocked by WCS.
Source: Phishing-Malware Bait: Brazilian Income Tax Return | TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro
Filed under: Security and Anti-Virus, Internet Hacks, Spam\Phishing, Cybercrime