Unpaid Invoice from Staples Inc., Ref. 42652370, Urgent Notice

Description:

Unpaid Invoice from Staples Inc., Ref. 42652370, Urgent Notice macro malware.

Headers:

Subject: Unpaid Invoice from Staples Inc., Ref. 42652370, Urgent Notice

Message Body:

Dear Valued Customer, This letter is a formal notice to you taking in consideration the fact that you are obligated to repay our company the sum of $175,40 which was advanced to you from our company on November 21st, 2015. You now have two options: forward your payment to our office by January 17, 2016 or become a party in a legal action. Please be advised that a judgment against you will also damage your credit record. Please acknowledge the receipt of the invoice attached and the e-mail, no later than December 31, 2015. Regards, Jeanine Castro Customer Service Department Realty Solutions 182 Shobe Lane Denver, CO 80216

Attachment filename(s):

invoice_42652370_copy.doc

Sha256 Hashes:

37a2a137a91eab96ff0876892e5c498814ed53d118fc30f5534737993324cfd0 [1]
ff0f08fc470b4ef4fc82b3c9844134c871aa23d5dcd02f24bee532145545fccf [2]

Malware Virus Scanner Report(s):

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

Sanesecurity Signature detection:

badmacro.ndb: Sanesecurity.Doc.hyper

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