Spam is usually used to propagate malware. Most spam leads to click the links or attached files by disguising it with social issues, entertainers, events, Christmas or New Year greetings, and friends using social engineering techniques. As a user clicks it, the user's system is infected with malware. The infected systems can be used to various cyber-crimes. Recently such spam has been increased and that includes executable malware. In this paper, the results of the analysis of the malware attached in spam are presented.
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Im, E. G., & Han, K. S. (2012). An analysis of malware attached in spam. In Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (Vol. 120 LNEE, pp. 601–605). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2911-7_58
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