Earlier today, several e-mails with love themed subjects were seen in the wild. While some of the subjects are a rehash of previously used subjects such as Sending You My Love, The Dance of Love, and When I'm With You, others are new:
A Dream is a Wish A Is For Attitude Eternal Love Eternity of Your Love Falling In Love with You Hugging My Pillow Inside My Heart Kisses Through E-mail Our Journey Sent with Love When Love Comes Knocking You're In My Thoughts You're the One
The e-mail messages themselves have no text, instead, they have attached executables with romantic sounding filenames. These include:
Love Card.exe Love Postcard.exe Greeting Card.exe Postcard.exe
All files are detected as Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.ct.
A second run occurred after a few hours. This time, the subjects were security related.
Furthermore, the message body is an image file which advises the receiver to patch their systems. Also included within the image is a password in order to extract the attachment.
Something new to the Zhelatin family is the use of a password protected Zip archive as an attachment. The filenames vary but they have the following format:
patch-[4 to 5 random numerical characters].zip hotfix-[4 to 5 random numerical characters].zip
The executable contained within the Zip archive has the same name as that of the archive but with an EXE extension.
Executables are also detected as Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.ct while the Zip archives are detected as Password-protected-EXE. Latest detections are included in update 2007-04-13_01.
