Storm Codec

Today the Storm Botnet is spamming out links to its latest website inside love themed emails. As is usual for Storm, the spam emails contain a short message and a link. Some subject lines are 'Just you and me', 'For you...Sweetheart!', 'My heart was stolen' and 'Only you'.

This latest website asks the user to download and run the ‘Storm Codec’. Not surprisingly the files StormCodec.exe and StormCodec8.exe, which are linked to by the image of a media player and the ‘Download it’ link, are in fact Storm variants.