{"id":25455,"date":"2022-09-11T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=25455"},"modified":"2022-09-11T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T10:45:16","slug":"netflix-team-youtube-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/25455\/netflix-team-youtube-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Team Youtube Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virus scam in the name of the Netflix team.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you are active on Youtube, you might get one of these messages, telling you, that you can participate in a promotion earning loads of dollars.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j8tA5tbXywk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you respond to the email, then you will get an answer, usually with a link to some &#8220;promotion files&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"957\" height=\"673\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_1.png 957w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_1-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_1-768x540.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n> Hello, we are the Netflix team.<br \/>\n><br \/>\n> Your YouTube channel is perfect for promoting our brand, so we&#8217;d like<br \/>\n> to work with you.<br \/>\n> Netflix is an entertainment company, streaming film and series service.<br \/>\n> It produces its own films and series, including animated ones,<br \/>\n> What do you think of this offer?<br \/>\n> We make the following request to you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>What is in the files?<\/h2>\n<p>The best reaction is to just delete the email and do not respond at all. But I was curious, as always, and downloaded the file in a Linux virtual machine. What we get is a ZIP file. The size of the ZIP file is around 7 MB, however the content is much larger if you extract it. This is mainly to prevent the files from being checked by online antivirus tools like &#8220;VirusTotal&#8221; which have a file limit.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a password protection on the file to prevent your local virus scanner to scan the contents of the file.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_2.png 849w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_2-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_2-768x303.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, let&#8217;s extract the files. Fortunately there is also a smaller file, which can be checked easily with &#8220;VirusTotal&#8221;. The result is as expected and contains malware. Interesting enough, the original file name was &#8220;Lenovo Premium contract docx.exe&#8221;. Which means the files are used for different versions of the scam mails.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"624\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_3.png 781w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_3-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_3-768x614.png 768w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_3-350x280.png 350w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/netflix_scam_3-100x80.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virus scam in the name of the Netflix team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1552],"tags":[1601,1590,1602],"class_list":["post-25455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-en","tag-malware-en","tag-scam","tag-security-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}