{"id":955,"date":"2009-07-02T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T09:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2009-07-02T10:15:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T09:15:41","slug":"new-variant-of-the-rsplug-trojan-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-the-rsplug-trojan-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"New Variant of the RSPlug Trojan Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that we&#8217;ve been using that phrase a lot lately. (We posted about another new variant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/new-variant-of-rsplug-trojan-horse-rsplug-l\/\">last week<\/a>.) In the first year of the RSPlug Trojan horse&#8217;s existence (Intego discovered it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/intego-security-alert-osxrspluga-trojan-horse\/\">October 2007<\/a>), only a couple of variants were seen, but now it seems that there&#8217;s a new one every week; or every time Intego announces that it&#8217;s found the latest variant. For it&#8217;s obvious that the creators of this malware follow The Mac Security Blog: one variant of this Trojan horse even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/yet-another-variant-of-the-rsplug-trojan-horse-this-one-taunts-intego\/\">taunted Intego<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So today we&#8217;ve spotted RSPlug.M, a new variant of the Trojan horse, which, like the others, makes changes in its code in an attempt to fool antivirus software. But Intego VirusBarrier X5&#8217;s proactive analysis spotted this new variant right away. <\/p>\n<p>The RSPlug.M variant was spotted on a music download site offering the download of an album by 2Pac:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/images\/2pac.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>While the page for this download contains a link to a RapidShare download page, this latter link is not active. The links on the page &#8211; one that seems to download the album itself, another for a &#8220;Fast Mp3 Music Downloader&#8221; &#8211; both lead to disk images containing this latest variant of RSPlug. It should be noted that, since the installer contained in the disk image claims to install &#8220;MacCinema&#8221;, or the same installer for fake video codecs, anyone downloading this disk image thinking it has something to do with music may hesitate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that we&#8217;ve been using that phrase a lot lately. (We posted about another new variant last week.) 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