Fake American Express Email

Seems quite a few big names missed it... tsk tsk.  
 
😉

@DavidP wrote:
Seems quite a few big names missed it... tsk tsk.  
 
;)

Yes I agree and the thing is WSA does not wast time scanning email but if the Attachment is unzipped WSA jumps on it like a Pit Bull or is that John Bull or Red Bull? 😉 As most people should just delete them but if not and they are using WSA they are well protected in any event. Some people call me a fanboy on other forums but the proof is in the pudding they just have to understand how WSA really works it's the future and it's here now!
 
Daniel

@ wrote:
Yes I agree and the thing is WSA does not wast time scanning email but if the Attachment is unzipped WSA jumps on it like a Pit Bull or is that John Bull or Red Bull? 😉 As most people should just delete them but if not and they are using WSA they are well protected in any event.
 
Daniel

I admit, when I first heard about Webroot's approach, I was not sold on it nor convinced it would be effective.
 
I am sold on it now, it really does work without making your computer work overtime.  

@DavidP wrote:

@ wrote:
Yes I agree and the thing is WSA does not wast time scanning email but if the Attachment is unzipped WSA jumps on it like a Pit Bull or is that John Bull or Red Bull? 😉 As most people should just delete them but if not and they are using WSA they are well protected in any event.
 
Daniel

I admit, when I first heard about Webroot's approach, I was not sold on it nor convinced it would be effective.
 
I am sold on it now, it really does work without making your computer work overtime.  

It's a 712kb download for the PC version installs in about a minute or two and auto updates in a flash of an eye and 2 to 5MB's of Ram usage. Like Joe said in one PC Mag article most Bitmap Image's are bigger than the install file. LOL
 
Daniel
 

I actually enjoy getting files like that so I can play with them a little bit. Sometimes run the in a virtualized enviornment and see what changes it makes and who can really catch it. So far, Webroot has been the best of the lot, catching some files that other "Big-Name" products do not.

Daniel, I am glad WSA stood up and secured your machine. Moreover WSA was between the first to caught this malware! Great work Webroot folks.

We saw that on the 24th of April, we regularly see stuff bad before other AV`s. That file itself has a Adobe icon uses about 8mb of RAM when initiall run. Seems it drops a file in the users app data and creates a shell entry for said file. I was hoping it was going to do something exiting and cool.

@ wrote:
we regularly see stuff bad before other AV`s.

I ❤️ ❤️ WEBROOT. 😃

It's always a bummer when you run a malware sample and it's designed to be super-simple to evade AV heuristics. No fun in that.
 
I endorse the site malwr.com as a first-line sandbox to make sure the malware is juicy.