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Fake Flash player on DropBox

05
May
2013

Fake Flash updates are leveraged as a very popular trick amongst attackers to fool users into downloading and installing malware. This week we found a three websites distributing Win32.Sanity.N malware disguised as Flash updates:

  • hxxp://kivancoldu.com/, redirects to hxxp://click-videox.com/

http://kivancoldu.com on 05/02/2013
  • hxxp://fastcekim.com/, redirects to hxxp://click-videox.com/
  • hxxp://kivanctatlitug.tk/ d(down)
hxxp://kivanctatlitug.tk/

The fake warning at the top of the page alternates between English and Turkish.

What is interesting is that the malicious executables are actually hosted in a DropBox account and have not been taken down since they were found about seven days ago. I have spotted two different executables so far:

These two files have similar behavior. They disable all Windows features: UAC, Firewall, AV, Safe Boot, etc. The malware then drops variants of the Sality virus, some of which have a good detection rate amongst AV vendors.

Interestingly, there is a link on the malicious websites that shows how many people visited it. There were 1,412 unique visitors in a single day.


There is another peak of traffic report and on 05/02 registered 1,700 visitors…and counting.



These sites keep popping up and the are still able to fool users.

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