Your new Telstra bill for account 2000514059862 is attached

Description:

Your new Telstra bill for account 2000514059862 is attached Gerd Schenkel macro TRPB_1_1107991874.xls malware.

Headers:

From: {telstraemailbill_noreply8@online.telstra.com}
Subject: Your new Telstra bill for account 2000514059862 is attached

Message Body:

Your account number: 2000514059862 This bill number: 1107991874 Hi , Your new Telstra bill is attached. Please pay your bill by its due date of 30 Nov 2015. We recommend making your payment online at telstra.com/paybill. Like to know more? If you have any questions or concerns about this email you can get in touch with us at telstra.com/contact. See you online soon, Gerd Schenkel Executive Director, Telstra Digital Sales and Service

Attachment filename(s):

TRPB_1_1107991874.xls

Sha256 Hashes:

700d5eb0a2ff1fdfac1f95a40b4f3fd2bfbc98fcc16bc8f13efe10c114dfe87e [1]
9ce4022b73e9c9f656de082d6ae6374d1aa4e391ac06597c218a32255b0a4ef4 [2]

Malware Virus Scanner Report(s):

VirusTotal Report: [1] (detection 4/55)
VirusTotal Report: [2] (detection 4/55)

Sanesecurity Signature detection:

badmacro.ndb: Sanesecurity.Badmacro.XlsM.003.

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

Sanesecurity.com