Amazon

Thursday 21 January 2016

statement - payment due accounts@phoenixorganics.ltd.uk

Description:


statement - payment due accounts@phoenixorganics.ltd.uk Customer statement.doc macro malware

Headers:


From: {accounts@phoenixorganics.ltd.uk}
Subject: statement - payment due

Message Body:



Rowie
 
Please can you send a payment to clear the December invoices.
 
Thank you
 
Regards
Liz

Attachment filename(s):


Customer statement.doc


Sha256 Hashes:


b1ae3b428d3634fd46e2fd8c1a4b66dfa02853ef95507a0b7cfcb5f9a929dd8d6 [1]
627e3a939d0a99cdb47cc2491e79bb34f067340505a745c1a3d33241005efbbd [2]
b92bc482eaaab3b855e9b3fc79cb2579609f6badcc7aca6a1d990c91a69405fe [3]

Malware Virus Scanner Report(s):

VirusTotal Report: [1] (detection 2/55)
VirusTotal Report: [2] (detection 2/55)
VirusTotal Report: [3] (detection 2/55)

Sanesecurity Signature detection:

badmacro.ndb: Sanesecurity.Badmacro.HttpSha.New

Important notes:


Am I Safe?

The current round of Word/Excel/XML/Docm attachments are targeted at Windows and Microsoft Office users.

Apple (Mac/iPhone/iPad), Android and Blackberry mobiles/tablets that open these attachments will be safe.LibreOffice and OpenOffice users should also be safe but do not enable macros if asked to by the attached file.

If you have Macros disabled  in Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel, you should be safe but again,
do not enable macros if asked to by the attached file.

However, if you are an  (Mac/iPhone/iPad), Android and Blackberry mobiles/tablet user.. and forward the message to a Windows user, you will then put them at risk of opening the attachment and auto-downloading the malware.

These word/excel attachments normally try to download either...

    Dridex banking trojan,
    Shifu banking trojan

... both of which are designed to steal login information regarding your bank accounts either by
key logging, taking screen shots or copying information directly from your clipboard (copy/paste)


It's also worth remembering that the company itself  may not have any knowledge of this faked email and any link(s) or attachment in the email normally won't have come from their servers or IT systems but from an external bot net.

These bot-net emails normally have faked email headers/addresses.

It's not advised to ring/email the the company themselves, as there won't really be anything they can do to help you or to stop the emails being spread.



Cheers,
Steve

2 comments:

Nyebodnye said...

1st SHA256 hash is one chcarcter too long :-S

Nyebodnye said...

Ah there shoudln't be a B at the beginning
It's the same as the hash from the post above it