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Fake PayPal Emails Distributing Malware

Cybercriminals are mimicking the online payment processor PayPal in a malicious spam campaign that attempts to dupe customers into downloading malware from links in seemingly authentic emails. The piece of malware in use here is a backdoor that, once downloaded, can be used by an attacker to take complete control of the infected host machine. 90 percent of antivirus scanners are detecting the download as backdoor.win32.fm . The email that Dancho Danchev analyzed can be seen below.

Source: https://threatpost.com/fake-paypal-emails-distributing-malware-102312/77145/

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