Hi All,

 According to panda labs:


We’ve detected an increase in the number of domains containing the word
facebook and which belong to malicious websites. What is clear is that
cybercrooks are aware of the success of the social networks, especially
Facebook, and consider them an entry point to distribute malware or to
obtain credentials.

Among them there are the following:

facebook-ims.com
facebooks.bz
gjfacebook.com
image-facebook.com
ims-facebook.net
inbox-facebook.com
kfacebook.net
kjfacebook.net
lfacebooks.net
ojfacebook.net
ozfacebook.net
ppfacebooks.net
sodfacebook.com
ujfacebook.net
vfacebooks.net
vvfacebook.net
xfacebook.net
xxfacebooks.com
zfacebook.net
zxfacebook.net

In most of the cases, when you access any of these URLs, a similar interface
to real Facebook is displayed, in oder to obtain your access data. Then, you
are redirected to the real site not to raise suspicion.

The following image is an example of the fake Facebook site. It may be
easily identified not only because the page of the address bar doesn’t
belong to the real Facebook but also because part of the text and the images
are different:

This image belongs to the fake website:

[image: Fakebook.jpg]*Fake Facebook site*Fakebook.jpg (103.28 KiB) Viewed 98
times


As you can see, the web address does not belong to the original one:

[image: Fakebook_address.jpg]*Fake web address*Fakebook_address.jpg (3.48
KiB) Viewed 98 times


This image belongs to the real website:

[image: Fakebook_real.jpg]*Real Facebook*Fakebook_real.jpg (112.79 KiB)
Viewed 98 times


However, the purpose is not always to obtain user’s credentials, as from
some of these websites malware is downloaded using the technique drive by
download, in which the file is automatically run without user’s
intervention.

We’ve seen that one of the samples that is being distributed through these
websites is W32/Lolbot.C.worm.

Surely Facebook’s imitators will continue to appear, so when you access this
or any other social network, don’t do it through links received via email,
it’s better to type it directly in the address bar of the browser.

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