Malware Distributed Disguised as a Password File

AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) discovered a malware strain disguised as a password file and being distributed alongside a normal file within a compressed file last month. It is difficult for users to notice that this file is malicious because this type of malware is distributed together with a normal file. The recently discovered malware was in CHM and LNK file formats. In the case of the CHM file, it shares the same type as the malware covered in …

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