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Olympic Malware Doing the Rounds|
- By CXOtoday Staff, Aug 18, 2008 1646 hrs IST
- Tags : malware, TrendMicro, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Trojan, Olympics
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Malware cashing in on the Olympics fan-following may affect MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel applications, said security solutions provider -- Trend Micro, in a press statement. These malware could allow remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system, or cause the application to crash.
While China hosts the 2008 Summer Olympics, malware authors are busy mounting attacks that play on this sporting event.
Reports have surfaced about a zero-day MS Word vulnerability affecting Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, and 2003. It is said to affect even patched versions of the popular word-processing application on certain MS Office versions. Said Niraj Kaushik, country manager, India & SAARC of Trend Micro, "When exploited, the unspecified remote code-execution vulnerability could allow remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system, or cause the application to crash."
Trend Micro's TrendLabs have confirmed that there are malicious .DOC files spreading in the wild. They have also observed that these malicious files use the hugely popular Olympics to get more users to click on them. The samples that TrendLabs has come across are detected as TROJ_MDROPPER.ZT.
These files are zero-day exploits under vulnerability summary CVE-2008-2244 under the Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVE) List of the US Department of Homeland Security's US National Cyber Security Division.
The malicious Excel file has been detected as TROJ_MDROPPER.ZY, and the PowerPoint file as TROJ_PPDROP.M. Unlike the Word file malware, these Excel and PowerPoint files are not confirmed to have zero-day vulnerabilities as yet.
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