Fake YouTube Pages Spreading Malware

YTFakeCreator is a latest tool to create fake Youtube Website to spread malware. Panda Security has  YTFakeCreator, that enables anyone to easily create a fake YouTube page that surreptitiously installs a Trojan, virus, or adware on a visitor’s computer. YTFakeCreator does not not spread malware links by it’s own, an attacker must distribute it via e-mail, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer file-sharing networks or CD.

YTFakeCreator configuration menu

YTFakeCreator configuration menu

Then, two files are created; one of them belongs to the fake YouTube Website (Index.html) and the other to the error Website that is displayed once the malware has been downloaded (Error.html):

YTFakeCreator error message

Fake YouTube websites created with this tool look like

YTFakeCreator fake YouTube websites created with this tool look like

warning message can be easily modified with the YTFakeCreator configuration menu

YTFakeCreator error message

Users get a page asking for download a fake Youtube Plugin and if user select to download the Plugin the selected malware is downloaded to users computer and user get an Youtube error page

YTFakeCreator Youtube error page

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