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Net Monitoring Spam Uses Old Whitespace Padding Trick

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There’s another wave of malware-bearing spam. This time, the spam claims that “new clauses” have been added to the legislation regulating your online activities. Figure 1. Spam sample Attached in the spam email is the zip file Legislation.zip, which contains Legislation.doc{several whitespace characters}.exe. Yes, this is the age-old double-extension trick which uses a LOT of whitespace to [...]




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