Auslogics Software logo used in spam
May 14, 2009 3 Comments
When spammers send their messages they try to hide their tracks by spoofing the From address in each message. Sometimes using valid domains or even real email addresses. In some cases they also try to gain credibility by using a brand, a logo or any other style of a real company.
In this case, the victim is the company Auslogics Software (http://www.auslogics.com/).
When looking at the spam it seems that they offer a whole branch of software products. But in fact this company offers software to speed up your computer, recovery and disc-and registry defrag tools.
The Auslogics logo is embedded with a complete URL directing to the Auslogics Software web site. The other images are taken from the Amazon web site.
Unfourtunatly, or luckely - depends how you look at it, the spammers didn’t complete their homework very well. A small mistake happened and the provided links contain http://{oemurl}/. It seems that the spammers have forgotten to include a real URL or that a content merge failed.
I’ve gotten 6 or 8 of these in the last 24 hours. They all appear to have come directly from infected machines rather than being sent via one of the large ISPs.
This is Auslogics. We’re trying to track the spammers, who apparently originate from whereabouts of Brazil (perhaps from spambot infected computers). If you have any information or can help track the spammers please let us know at support_int [at] auslogics (append dot com to the address).
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