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Sure it's a trojan. It's an executable disguised as something seemingly innocuous that would entice the user to open it. The very definition of trojan.

And that makes it not a virus.. and it's not even the first Mac OS X trojan. That dis-honor goes to a 400k file that surfaced a couple of years ago pretending to be a compressed copy of the Microsoft Office for Mac Install CD. That one actually did some damage to the two or three greedy Mac users who downloaded it and ran it... it wiped their user directories... something they richly deserved.

The "trick you to download and open" thing can be done on any system, as long as the user has sufficient privileges, and is willing to follow the instructions. Even the joke "Aggie Manual Virus" email will work if you do what it tells you to. "Forward this email to everyone in your address book then format your hard drive."

The .jpg exif exploit in MS Windows would have scared me if it transported to Mac.