Analyzing the Mario Themed Malware

This reminds me of South Park Super Mario Bros [0] by Joe Dixon / Polygon. I think both first and second editions were developed using Clickteam [1] products The Games Factory, and possibly Multimedia Fusion. I recall Enhanced Edition was largely bug free, incredibly polished, and loads of fun.

Avira anti-virus software would complain about adware being contained in the same directory as spm2.exe. I loved playing spm2 so I chose to uninstall Avira instead.

Beware, I haven't followed the download links in [0], and I don't recall Mr. Garrison appearing in-game as is claimed in the writeup there.

[0] https://www.old-games.com/download/2849/southpark-mario-brot... [1] https://www.clickteam.com/

> If you were a child with a Nintendo DS like myself

Well, apparently I'm officially old ;)

WOW, think about my mom or wife's grandma, and even though they are very unlikely to download a Mario Kart game, they are more susceptible to things like "Your computer has a virus" and other things like that.

I never considered that with a executable malware, the cookies and/or passwords could be compromised. Further more, that the computer could be made slave to a botnet.

Is this how machines are taken captive to do a DDoS? Terrifying stuff!

What's sad about this is the scam site is still up and running.