| Your tax return was incorrectly filled out word malware being spammed out from random addresses with a word attachment, containing Macros. |
These emails aren't from the various companies
at all, they just being used to make the email look more genuine, ie. from a real company.
Note
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. |
Message Header:
Subject: 2014 Tax payment issue
Message Body:
According to your tax payments for 2014 year period we found that you gave a
wrong legal address in your last tax payment. In order to avoid penalty fees on
your tax dues we ask you to contact our specialist having checked the previous
payment in advance (the DOC invoice attached below).
Regards
Kathleen Sampson
Tax Inspector
Attachment:
TAX_76288MKP.doc
Md5 Hashes:
386d59bd732ff3a035ce1ab453969eeb [1]
a0195d48b7313123803d181aa523c520 [2] |
Malware Macro document information:
VirusTotal Report [1] (hits 0/57 Virus Scanners)
VirusTotal Report [2] (hits 0/57 Virus Scanners)
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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)) |
Cheers,
Steve
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