IM Trojan Woos Victims with Bible Verses and Good Manners
After gaining access to users’ contact lists, it distributes itself through Facebook’s instant messaging function and Yahoo Messenger, from one friend to another. Users receive a polite question, seemingly from a Facebook or Yahoo messaging friend: “I want to post these pictures on Facebook, do you think it’s OK?” It also adds a range of Bible verses to signal its good intentions. To add legitimacy, the URLs following the question belong to storage services Dropbox and Fileswap, frequently used for sharing pictures and files.