Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2016

Beware, even things on Amazon come with embedded malware… this is the disconcerting discovery made by the expert Mark Olsen.

Who is brenz.pl? Simple, let’s ask it to Google.The domain is known to be a bad domain used for fraudulent activities, including malware-based attacks. Searching for more information online, we can find more information about the domain.

Virus Total also reports it as a malicious domain, meanwhile, experts at Sucuri confirmed in a blog post dated 2011 that they used to see brenz.pl being used to distribute malware back in 2009.“Malware. See this page or just simply go through this google search for more information. My guess is many people have missed this. The seller has great ratings and the products are a good deal. So be careful what you buy!” wrote Olsen.

A month ago, a user in a forum discussion reported the presence of a link to the malicious domain in the firmware running on commercial products.

“Just a caution for those upgrading the SC10IP’s firmware…I have come across a version with malware embedded in all the HTML pages.” reporetd the user.”each HTML file contains an iframe link to www. brenz. pl, which is (was) a malware distribution site. The site is recognised by Chrome’s malware detection, so you get a big warning not to proceed. It has also been taken over by CERT PL, so i presume it can’t cause any harm now.”Watch out! Now you know that even products sold on Amazon could be infected.”

Second, Amazon stuff can contain malware.” wrote Olsen.

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Pierluigi Paganini 

(Security Affairs – Amazon infected products, malware)