Risk: Medium
Malware is circulating that targets OpenOffice documents and is capable of infecting Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.
Depending on the infected user's operating system, the malware (badbunny.odg) behaves in different ways. On Windows machines, it places a file called drop.bad into the system.ini in the user's mIRC folder, whilst a Javascript virus replicates to other files in the folder. On Macs, one of two Ruby script viruses are dropped by the worm in files called badbunny.rb and badbunnya.rb. On Linux systems, the worm drops badbunny.py as an XChat script and badbunny.pl as a Perl virus.
In order to mitigate the risk of becoming a victim of the worm, it is recommended that users of all operating systems do not open attachments emailed to them from unfamiliar senders.