Quote:A new ample spam campaign is spreading the Emotet banking Trojan to unsuspecting victims via maliciously crafted emails as discovered by ESET Research in November.

As reported by ESET Research, this November's Emotet-powered spam campaign is spreading the malware using emails that contain malicious attachments posing as either invoices, bank account alerts, or payment notifications, or hyperlinks to domains controlled by the bad actors behind the Trojan as an alternative infection starting point.

The target compromise process will automatically begin when the victims open the malicious attachments and, once the victim activates the infection mechanism (Word macros or PDF links), the Emotet payload is downloaded, installed, and launched on the system.