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Careful with Christmas.exe Posted by Mikko @ 14:10 GMT

Christmas.exe

We've just received a sample of something that's named CHRISTMAS.EXE.

When run, this IRCBot variant will try to download various malicious executables from web servers at waiguadown.008.net and user.free.77169.net.

As a decoy, it shows this Christmas-themed image:

Christmas.exe Image

Obviously, a gift that keeps on giving. To be avoided.