This email poses as a Windows Portal News and addresses itself to people who are a Windows Live Member. People with Windows Live Mail and Hotmail accounts will fall easily for this one.
IPB Image
Needless to say, the email does not come from Microsoft.

File details


Filename: video.avi.exe

File size: 110080 bytes
MD5...: 63aaec539c2066162245dbcd401ed6dd
SHA1..: 636c40e8a36b8c5148ebc155ab3507a46f9cc6b5
SHA256: 8c02faea017673b30952dbeb1f9f110cc9f7cb9a4521da5cf504c1e76c594086
PEiD..: -
QUOTE
File video.avi.exe received on 07.31.2008 06:58:50 (CET)
AhnLab-V3 2008.7.29.1 2008.07.31 -
AntiVir 7.8.1.12 2008.07.30 HEUR/Crypted
Authentium 5.1.0.4 2008.07.30 -
Avast 4.8.1195.0 2008.07.30 -
AVG 8.0.0.156 2008.07.30 Downloader.FraudLoad.A
BitDefender 7.2 2008.07.31 -
CAT-QuickHeal 9.50 2008.07.30 (Suspicious) - DNAScan
ClamAV 0.93.1 2008.07.31 -
DrWeb 4.44.0.09170 2008.07.31 -
eSafe 7.0.17.0 2008.07.29 Suspicious File
eTrust-Vet 31.6.5997 2008.07.31 -
Ewido 4.0 2008.07.30 -
F-Prot 4.4.4.56 2008.07.30 -
F-Secure 7.60.13501.0 2008.07.31 Trojan-Downloader:W32/Zlob.HUN
Fortinet 3.14.0.0 2008.07.31 -
GData 2.0.7306.1023 2008.07.31 Trojan-Downloader.Win32.FraudLoad.vati
Ikarus T3.1.1.34.0 2008.07.31 -
Kaspersky 7.0.0.125 2008.07.31 Trojan-Downloader.Win32.FraudLoad.vati
McAfee 5350 2008.07.30 Fakealert-AG.gen
Microsoft 1.3704 2008.07.28 -
NOD32v2 3311 2008.07.30 -
Norman 5.80.02 2008.07.30 -
Panda 9.0.0.4 2008.07.30 -
PCTools 4.4.2.0 2008.07.30 -
Prevx1 V2 2008.07.31 -
Rising 20.55.30.00 2008.07.31 -
Sophos 4.31.0 2008.07.31 Mal/TibsPk-D
Sunbelt 3.1.1537.1 2008.07.29 -
Symantec 10 2008.07.31 -
TheHacker 6.2.96.389 2008.07.25 -
TrendMicro 8.700.0.1004 2008.07.30 -
VBA32 3.12.8.1 2008.07.29 -
ViRobot 2008.7.30.1317 2008.07.30 -
VirusBuster 4.5.11.0 2008.07.30 -
Webwasher-Gateway 6.6.2 2008.07.31 Heuristic.Crypted

Notes


A closer look reveals that a fake / rogue antivirus will be downloaded to your computer, Antivirus XP 2008. We notice the presence of
  • avxp-08.com
  • youpornztube.net
IPB Image
The file structure and the domains are very similar to 0.exe who was downloaded by c:\boot.bak.
Reference: Exploiting redirects in Flash content.

A mutex is created to mark its presence on the system.
IPB Image