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.doc Trojan Surfaces
By: Sharon Khare   |   Jun 28, 2006
Experts at SophosLabs have warned of a Trojan horse that has been spammed out in large quantities to email users around the world.

The WM97/Kukudro-A Trojan horse has been spammed out in email messages, which can have a variety of subject lines including "worth to see", "prices", "Hi", and "Hello".

The body of the message reads as follows:

Hello

--
Regards,

Where and are changed. Attached to the email is a zip file (variously called prices.zip, apple_prices.zip or sony_prices.zip) containing a malicious Microsoft Word document entitled my_Notebook.doc.

Running the Word document installs another Trojan horse, called W32/Kuku-A, onto the user's hard drive.

"People may be curious as to why they have been sent the email and open the attached file, but doing so would be a big mistake," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. "This malware is being aggressively spammed out in an attempt to break into innocent users' Windows computers. The Trojan horse will try and download further code from the internet which could allow hackers to gain access to the computer in order to spy, steal and cause havoc."
 
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