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Software Update Announcement from Adobe Actually Spread Malware PDF Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:00

Spammers have unleashed an e-mail campaign that is widely spreading malicious software pretending to be upgrades for the X Suit Advanced and Acrobat Reader of Adobe, published Naked Security on December 6, 2011.


Posing as messages from Adobe, the e-mails distributing fresh Trojan have subject lines like "Adobe Software Critical Upgrade Notification ID: M29MGJW7CN3" along with a sender's address that's spoofed to make the messages seemingly originate from "Adobe Update Notification This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Moreover, the e-mails contain a .zip archive as an attachment, which carries a Zeus Trojan variant that software companies McAfee detected as PWS-Zbot.gen.hb, Microsoft as PWS:Win32/Zbot.gen!Y, and Norman as W32/Zbot.YFP, all capable of capturing banking details out of users' PCs they contaminate.

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