SEO poisoning is fast becoming a trend in spreading rogue anti-virus software. This type of attack coupled with relevant news items that might be of interest to users from all walks of life is a lethal combination. Search terms related to the recent MTV Video Music Awards brouhaha and President Obama’s off-the-record comments about Kanye West, as well as updates on murdered Yale graduate student Annie Le, are the latest targets.
Screenshot showing affected VMA-related Google search results:
Screenshot showing affected Annie Le-related Google search results:
Upon visiting these search results, visitors would be presented with the standard fake / rogue AV Web site. To make matters worse, (real) anti-virus have very poor detection rates.
Malware sample 1:
2% AV coverage (via Virustotal at time of writing)
SHA-1: 2ecffb9efe94174ee9e1a65c8105bc647214a94b
Malware sample 2:
7% AV coverage (via Virustotal at time of writing)
SHA-1: 1ba4d50c660e5beeeb32beb8eef3da44b20491b5
Screenshots of the fake AV Web site, as led to by the search engine.
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