Yahoo! PH Purple Hunt 2.0 Ad Compromised


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Yahoo! PH Purple Hunt 2.0 Ad Compromised

11:32 pm (UTC-7) | by Maharlito Aquino (Threats Analyst)

Earlier the other day, I was browsing through the Yahoo! PH site and the Yahoo! Purple Hunt 2.0 ad caught my attention.

Curious, I clicked the ad and found my browser downloading a suspicious file named com.com.

Apparently, this ad redirected me to a randomly generated URL similar to the following, which unfortunately led to the malicious download:

(moreā€¦) plus screenshots: http://blog.trendmicro.com/

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