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Valentine Nuwar

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 5:10pm by Joey Koo
Joey Koo

With Valentine’s Day coming this week, we have seen a new wave of Nuwar spamming this Monday evening, amounting to more than 20 variants in a couple of hours. Detection for these variants from major AV vendors was near nonexistent, as the Nuwar writer is using a new compiler this time to bypass detection.

When you click on the link in the e-mail, the Web site will display a picture and you will be prompted to download the executable as shown below.

Valentine Day pic

malware download
We have seen samples named valentine.exe.
Happy Valentine’s Day!

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