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Found trojan that attempts to steal money by selling a fake iPhone

Sunbelt team reported about new trojan that attempts to steal money by selling a fake iPhone. The malware produces a popup, triggered by going to yahoo.com or google.com. There are multiple types of popups, including one saying “supported by Google” and one “supported by Yahoo”.

Normally, when you go to iPhone.com, you get redirected to Apple’s site — http://www.apple.com/iphone/. On an infected system, you get directed to a custom “iphone.com” which actually is a fake site. The Trojan is pulling content from your local disk in a file that has been created in %system%\confg.xml and creating BHO (Browser Helper Object)

BHO: {AA7F2000-EA05-489d-900C-3C7C0A5497A3} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\rwera21s1.dll

They are using this BHO to inject code into Internet Explorer to make it appear as if you are on a website owned by Apple. The same technique is used by malware to target banking websites.

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