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New malvertizement featuring gifttree.com

June 20th 2008 in Uncategorized

I have received a copy of a new malvertizement featuring gifttree.com.

Analysis reveals two malicious URLs, being:

waytotheprofit.com/?cmpid=itlocation
station-appraisals.com/c/index.php?

The waytotheprofit.com URL leads us to an adnetserver.com URL which in turns leads us to a german language fraudware site, being diskretter.com (which, by the way, shares IP with A-records and mail servers with several domains including securepccleaner.com and exterminadordevirus.com.

 

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Details here:http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/06/16/houston-we-have-a-problem.aspx
Update: We’ll be offline until as late as Friday:http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/06/16/offline-for-a-couple-of-days.aspx
 

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