14 DAY TRIAL // The recently discovered Trojan has a meteoric rise this couple of days as it amounts to over 35% of all malware reports. Kukudro-A spreads through mass-spammed e-mails promising discounts, new information or just having "Hi" or "Hello" posted as subject.
With all its politeness the message incites the user to execute an .zip archive that contains a compromised Word document which will attempt to install on the hard-drive another Trojan named Kuku-A. Regarded as a medium threat by the security companies, the Kuku-A Trojan horse will allow an attacker access and eventually control over an infected computer, and even remote code execution.
"People may be curious as to why they have been sent the email and open the attached file, but doing so would be a big mistake," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. "This malware is being aggressively spammed out in an attempt to break into innocent users' Windows computers. The Trojan horse will try and download further code from the internet which could allow hackers to gain access to the computer in order to spy, steal and cause havoc."