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Friday 12 February 2016

DVSA RECEIPT Fixed Penalty Receipt.docm macro malware.

Description:


DVSA RECEIPT Fixed Penalty Receipt.docm macro malware.

Headers:


From: FPO.CC.16@vosa.gsi.gov.uk
Subject: DVSA RECEIPT

Message Body:

Good afternoon

Please find attached your receipt, sent as requested.

Kind regards

(See attached file)

Fixed Penalty Office
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency | The Ellipse, Padley Road, Swansea,
SA1 8AN
Phone: 0300 123 9000



Find out more about government services at www.gov.uk/dvsa

Attachment filename(s):


Fixed Penalty Receipt.docm

Sha256 Hashes:


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Malware Virus Scanner Report(s):

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

Sanesecurity Signature detection:

badmacro.ndb: Sanesecurity.Badmacro.Xls.Wshell.G

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:

Anonymous said...

must have been one of the first. What they didn't know was that I don't drive
should I send it to Action Fraud? sending this as anonymous just in case!

AG said...

I have a Samsung and (idiotically) clicked on the attachment and just received a message "could not download file", and then i checked here to find out it's malware. Am i safe and is there anything i should do?