MSN Bot Plays on Controversy over Michael Jackson’s Death

Following the sudden and shocking death of The King of Pop, Senior Threat Researcher Loucif Kharouni reports that a slew of malicious links related to Michael Jackson’s last moments in the hospital before his death are now being proliferated in the wild via the instant messaging (IM) application, MSN. Below is a sample screenshot of an MSN IM window containing various templates of the said malicious links:

When recipients of such messages click on any of these links, they are then prompted to save a file named PIC-IMG029-www.hi5.com.exe (with the MD5 checksum of 031429fc14151f94c8651a3fb110c19b), instead of being led to an image site or gallery. Initial analysis shows that the said file is a variant of the SDBOT family.

Source : Trendmicro