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Fake Video Codecs Replacing Fake AV Pages

ID: 36d47e09-b4dc-574e-bfaf-57f62235135a

STIX ID: report--36d47e09-b4dc-574e-bfaf-57f62235135a

Feed Name: Zscaler Security Research Blog

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2025-04-02

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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The report describes an active SEO-spam campaign that redirects search results to fake Flash video pages which prompt users to download a malicious "codec" executable. These pages reuse fake-antivirus-style infrastructure (example domain: www2.realcleaner23p.co.cc), are delivered via spam links found in Google results, and the malicious binary is detected by 10 of 41 antivirus engines on VirusTotal.

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