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Nuwar: Are You Game?

Monday, September 17, 2007 at 12:34pm by Dmitry Gryaznov
Dmitry Gryaznov

After luring unsuspecting users into its trap with Labor Day postcards and NFL kickoffs, Nuwar (a.k.a. Storm Worm) has now switched to “free games” bait:

 

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 If you’re gullible enough to follow that link, it will take you to a convincingly enough looking Web page loaded with games images and an unpleasant surprise–a cocktail of exploits and downloaders:

So if you’re not running an on-access anti-virus product, you’re already in trouble. Anyway, the page itself looks like this (complete with broken images):

It promises ”1000+ free games,” but whatever icon you click you get nothing but Nuwar in a file named ArcadeWorld.exe.

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Comments (2)

  • akshay June 9, 2008 1:20AM

    Thanks for all this.

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  • Sonic September 17, 2007 9:58PM

    Looks like you’ve missed obfuscating the ip address on the On-Access scan message ;-) And the images could sure use a little resizing…

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