Payment request of (14 JAN 2015) invoice from random emails and companies are being spammed out.
The Word/Excel document has a random attachment, however
these emails aren't from these companies
at all, they just being used to make the email look more genuine, ie. from a real company.
It's also worth remembering that the company itself may not have any knowledge of this email and it's link(s) or attachment as it won't have come from their servers and IT systems but from an external bot net.
It's not advised to ring them as there won't really be anything they can do to help you.
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Message Header: (
Note: the email address and amount are random)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:20:28 +0200
Subject: Payment request of 3511.15 (14 JAN 2015)
From: Merlin Boone {Jeffry.ce@cm-93-156-251-163.telecable.es} |
Message Body (
Note: the amount, company person and name are random)
Dear Sirs,
Sub: Remitance of GBP 3511.15
This is with reference to the above, we request you to kindly remit GBP 3511.15 in favor of our bank account.
For more information on our bank details please refer to the attached document.
Thanking you,
Merlin BooneAccounts Payable |
Attachment: (Note:
the filename is random)
ADV0504GO.doc 5157090EZ.xls |
Md5 Hashes:
44d5e293fc3e4a68aca41b5651f5b897 [1] 7f3c2b0c5abe311f4e40b2a938a8ed75 [2] 38665c6364dd127b4b8bf98e033c4ec7 [3] 984597f7d4e83599baac04c7708394b2 [4]
3cc59cb545020d0d44c8ec9e7e04dc25 551bf7d91d5a6ab6b887956d5ce08571 612feaa36adcccc9281970b73ac7d7ef |
Malware Macro document information:
VirusTotal Report [1]
(hits 3/57 Virus Scanners)
VirusTotal Report [2]
(hits 3/57 Virus Scanners)
VirusTotal Report [3]
(hits 3/57 Virus Scanners)
VirusTotal Report [4]
(hits 3/57 Virus Scanners)
Malwr Report [1]
Decoded Macro [1] |
NOTE
The current round of Word and Excel attachments are targeted at Windows users.
Apple and Android software can open these attachments and may even manage to run the macro
embedded inside the attachment.
The auto-download file is normally a windows executable and so will not currently run on any operating system, apart from Windows.
However, if you are an Apple/Android user and forward the message to a Windows user, you will
them put them at risk of opening the attachment and auto-downloading the malware.
Currently
these attachments try to auto-download Dridex, which is designed to
steal login information regarding your bank accounts (either by key
logging, taking auto-screens hots or copying information from your
clipboard (copy/paste))
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Cheers,
Steve
2 comments:
Very useful blog and well laid analysis of scams, thanks.
Thanks for the feedback, always welcome :)
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