Bit by a dog with the plague

I was going to title this post differently, but I thought it wouldn’t be appropriate for this blog.

Anyway, beware of the dog! (picture), it contains a dangerous Trojan that will infect your PC.

It comes in the form of an executable that uses social engineering:

- it has a photo editor type of icon

- its name is id_dog0704jpg.exe

Upon running it, a picture of a grumpy-looking dog appears:

In the background, things are happening. It hooks into your system by creating two files set to run when you restart your computer:

It is detected by most (not all though) anti-virus companies.

JSegura