Malware distriburion methods

Snegirev Artem Igorevich, Marshalova Irina Yuryevna, Vershinin Alexander Nikolaevich, Nesterov Pavel Aleksandrovich, Vikulova Anastasia Sergeevna

The article is an overview of real malware distribution methods and possible threats. This article shows the current malware distribution methods and schemes. The article fully discloses the spam and phishing threat and attacks and the example of phishing emails in this article examines a malicious attachment and shows one of the methods of infecting your computer with a malicious file.The functionality of a malicious file is considered in detail and examples of other possible methods and ways of its transmission, as well as ways of infecting information technologies are given. It also presents real statistics of spam and phishing present in the Russian Internet space and the most popular malicious attachment. The above information is sufficient to understand the dangers for both home and corporate Internet users, and the recommendations provided to prevent infection of the computer and not to become a victim of fraudsters using the "World Wide Web". This article will be of interest to analysts and specialists in the field of information security, in particular, providing a mechanism designed to protect information and information technologies from the impact of the malware.

Keywords:spam, phishing, backdoor, ransomware, botnet, macros, attack.