SPAM frauds, fakes, and other MALWARE deliveries...

AplusWebMaster · Dec 23, 2014

Fake 'Remittance Advice', 'CHRISTMAS OFFERS.docx' SPAM, NTP ...

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Fake 'Remittance Advice' SPAM - malicious Excel attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2014/12/remittance-advice-spam-comes-with.html
23 Dec 2014 - "This -fake- remittance advice comes with a malicious Excel attachment.
From: Whitney
Date: 23 December 2014 at 09:12
Subject: Remittance Advice -DPRC93
Confidentiality and Disclaimer: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential or the subject of legal privilege.
If this email and its attachments have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy them, distribute them or show them to anyone.
Please contact the sender to notify them of the error...

The reference in the subject varies, and the name of the attachment always matches (so in this case DPRC93.xls). There are in fact three different versions of the document, all of which have a malicious macro. At the moment, none of these are detected by anti-virus vendors [1] [2] [3]... the macro has now changed completely, as it now loads some of the data from the Excel spreadsheet itself and puts it into a file %TEMP%\windows.vbs. So far I have seen three different scripts... which download a component from one of the following locations:
http ://185.48.56.133:8080/sstat/lldvs.php
http ://95.163.121.27:8080/sstat/lldvs.php
http ://92.63.88.100:8080/sstat/lldvs.php
It appears that this email is downloaded as test.exe and is then saved as %TEMP%\servics.exe. The ThreatExpert report shows traffic to the following:
194.146.136.1 (PE "Filipets Igor Victorovych", Ukraine)
80.237.255.196 (Denes Balazs / HostEurope, Germany)
85.25.20.107 (PlusServer AG, Germany)
VirusTotal indicates a detection rate of just 3/54*, and identifies it as Dridex.
Recommended blocklist:
194.146.136.1
80.237.255.196
85.25.20.107
185.48.56.133
95.163.121.27
92.63.88.100
92.63.88.106
Note that there are two IPs acting as downloaders in the 92.63.88.0/24 range (MWTV, Latvia). It may be that you would also want to block that range as well."
1] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...c774e8cf1dde2018b90b425a/analysis/1419330172/

2] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...fe146bbbc26373560c96a0fe/analysis/1419330170/

3] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...c774e8cf1dde2018b90b425a/analysis/1419330172/

* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...62b6a57e0eaa0518390d5ffb/analysis/1419333104/

- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/remittance-advice-pzdf16-excel-xls-malware/
23 Dec 2014
> 22 Dec 2014 : PZDF16.xls Current Virus total detections: 0/55*:
TKBJ98.xls Current Virus total detections: 0/55**
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...c774e8cf1dde2018b90b425a/analysis/1419328785/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...59f5f66275128aa2d44ee6b5/analysis/1419329398/

- http://blog.mxlab.eu/2014/12/23/ema...q26-contains-excel-file-with-malicious-macro/
Dec 23 2014
> https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...329987e765259f5f66275128aa2d44ee6b5/analysis/
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Fake 'CHRISTMAS OFFERS.docx' SPAM - Word doc malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/jayne-route2fitness-co-uk-christmas-offers-docx-word-doc-malware/
23 Dec 2014 - "'CHRISTMAS OFFERS.docx' pretending to come from Jayne <Jayne@ route2fitness .co.uk> with a malicious word doc attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... The email body is completely -blank- . As per usual there are at least 2 different file sizes of this malware although all are named exactly the same.

22 Dec 2014: CHRISTMAS OFFERS.doc (41 kb) . Current Virus total detections: 0/55* : CHRISTMAS OFFERS.doc (44 kb) . Current Virus total detections: 0/56**
Downloads dridex Trojan from microinvent .com//js/bin.exe which is moved to and run from %temp%1\V2MUY2XWYSFXQ.exe Virus total*** ..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...dc0a4421f3720ed84a521b2e/analysis/1419327481/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...0ca32a6868af651d68335d9c/analysis/1419327349/

*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...297f672474141227eeff7773/analysis/1419334606/

- http://blog.mxlab.eu/2014/12/23/emp...ristmas-offers-docx-contains-malicious-macro/
Dec 23, 2014
> https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...fe0fb63b43d0ca32a6868af651d68335d9c/analysis/
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Network Time Protocol Vulnerabilities
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov//advisories/ICSA-14-353-01
Dec 22, 2014 - "... vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely. Exploits that target these vulnerabilities are publicly available. Products using NTP service prior to NTP-4.2.8 are affected. No specific vendor is specified because this is an open source protocol.
IMPACT: Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the ntpd process..."

- https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-9295 - 7.5 (HIGH)

- http://arstechnica.com/security/201...l-bugs-in-net-time-sync-puts-servers-at-risk/
Dec 19 2014

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AplusWebMaster · Dec 24, 2014

MBR Wiper attacks strike Korean Power Plant, Fake 'Signature Invoice' SPAM ...

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MBR Wiper attacks strike Korean Power Plant
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab.../mbr-wiper-attacks-strike-korean-power-plant/
Dec 23, 2014 - "In recent weeks, a major Korean electric utility has been affected by destructive malware, which was designed to wipe the master boot records (MBRs) of affected systems. It is believed that this MBR wiper arrived at the target systems in part via a vulnerability in the Hangul Word Processor (HWP), a commonly used application in South Korea. A variety of social engineering lures were used to get would-be victims to open these files. Below is a quick overview of the attack with the infection chain starting from a spearphishing email sent to the employees’ inboxes:
> http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab.../files/2014/12/Infection-chain_MBR-wiper3.png
We detect the malware as TROJ_WHAIM.A*, which is a fairly straightforward MBR wiper. In addition to the MBR, it also overwrites files that are of specific types on the affected system. It installs itself as a service on affected machines to ensure that it will run whenever the system is restarted... it uses file names, service names, and descriptions of actual legitimate Windows services. This ensures that a cursory examination of a system’s services may not find anything malicious, helping this threat -evade- detection... This particular MBR-wiping behavior, while uncommon, has been seen before. We observed these routines in March 2013 when several attacks hit various South Korean government agencies resulting in major disruptions to their operations. The malware involved in this attack overwrote the MBR with a series of the words PRINCPES, HASTATI, or PR!NCPES. The recent attack on Sony Pictures also exhibited a similar MBR-wiping capability. There are also similarities to the previous MBR wiper attacks as well. All three attacks mentioned earlier overwrite the MBR with certain repeated strings... These attacks highlight our findings about the destructive, MBR-wiping malware that appear to have become a part of the arsenal of several threat actors. This is a threat that system administrators will have to deal with, and not all targeted attack countermeasures will be effective. Techniques to mitigate the damage that these attacks cause should be considered as a part of defense-in-depth networks.
Update as of 11:29 P.M. PST, December 23, 2014
Upon further analysis, we confirmed that TROJ_WHAIM.A checks if the current date and time is Dec 10, 2014 11:00 AM or later. If it meets this condition, it sets the registry, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PcaSvcc\finish to 1, thus triggering the MBR infection. Otherwise, it sleeps for a minute and checks the system time again. Aside from the MBR infection capabilities and overwriting certain strings, another similarity of this attack to the March 2013 incident is its ‘time bomb’ routine. A certain action is set in motion once the indicated date/time by the attackers is reached by the infected system."
* http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/threat-encyclopedia/malware/troj_whaim.a
"To restore your system's Master Boot Record (MBR)..."

South Korea seeks China's cooperation in probe into cyberattack on nuclear operator
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/24/us-northkorea-cybersecurity-nuclear-idUSKBN0K20DT20141224
Dec 24, 2014 - "... Connections to South Korean virtual private networks (VPNs) used in the cyberattacks were traced to multiple IP addresses in China's Shenyang city, located in a province which borders North Korea..."

Japan, wary of North Korea, works to secure infrastructure after Sony attack
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/24/us-northkorea-cyberattack-japan-idUSKBN0K20IX20141224
Dec 24, 2014 - "Japan, fearing it could be a soft target for possible North Korean cyberattacks in the escalating row over the Sony Pictures hack, has begun working to ensure basic infrastructure is safe and to formulate its diplomatic response, officials said... The government's National Information Security Center, working through various ministries, is pressing companies to improve their security from cyberattacks..."

Attack maps: http://map.ipviking.com/
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Fake 'Signature Invoice' SPAM - malicious attachment
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2014/12/malware-spam-rhianna-wellings.html
24 Dec 2014 - "Teckentrup Depot UK is a legitimate UK company, but these emails are -not- from Teckentrup Depot and they contain a malicious attachment. Teckentrup Depot has not been hacked, their database has not been compromised, and they are -not- responsible for this in any way.
From: Rhianna Wellings [Rhianna@ teckentrupdepot .co.uk]
Date: 24 December 2014 at 07:54
Subject: Signature Invoice 44281
Your report is attached in DOC format.
To load the report, you will need the Microsoft® Word® reader...

Attached is a malicious Word document called Signature Invoice.doc which comes in two different versions, both of which are undetected by AV vendors [1] [2]. Each one contains a different macro... which then downloads an additional component from one of these two locations:
http ://Lichtblick-tiere .de/js/bin.exe
http ://sunfung .hk/js/bin.exe
The file is saved into the location %TEMP%\1V2MUY2XWYSFXQ.exe and currently has a VirusTotal detection rate of just 4/56*. The ThreatExpert report shows traffic to the following IPs:
74.208.11.204 (1&1 Internet, US)
81.169.156.5 (Strato AG, Germany)
59.148.196.153 (HKBN, Hong Kong)
According to the Malwr report it also drops a malicious DLL with a detection rate of 24/56**, detected as the Dridex banking trojan.
Recommended blocklist:
74.208.11.204
81.169.156.5
59.148.196.153
lichtblick-tiere .de
sunfung .hk "
1] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...c7d4b07861f639d15ff35a38/analysis/1419412603/

2] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...c32519f529ae619f73739fd6/analysis/1419412612/

* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...25fd24387829d280e7dfafcc/analysis/1419413157/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...427b337536c2ee4550ac937d/analysis/1419417434/

- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/rhian...-uk-signature-invoice-44281-word-doc-malware/
24 Dec 2014 : Signature Invoice.doc . Current Virus total detections: 0/56*: 0/56**
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...c7d4b07861f639d15ff35a38/analysis/1419409093/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...c32519f529ae619f73739fd6/analysis/1419409548/
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Fake Christmas offers infect PCs with banking Trojan
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud...istmas-offers-infect-pcs-with-banking-trojan/
Dec 24, 2014 - "... The email is accompanied by a Word document with a catchy name: CHRISTMAS OFFERS.docx:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/xmas_message.png
... the document is blank and requires the user to enable macros in order to view it. By default Microsoft Office disables macros, a handy automation feature but also a huge security risk. This is where the social engineering lies and the crooks are counting on people so eager to see the promised content that they will push the button and get infected. Macros enable you to create scripts that automate repetitive tasks within a document, for example copying content from one page and pasting it with a different font and color on another. At the same time, a macro can be used to perform a malicious action, which happens to be the case here.
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/word_doc.png
... What happens if you were to trust the document? A remote file is downloaded from
hxxp ://jasoncurtis .co.uk/js/bin.exe and ran from the temp folder... It is known as Dridex, a banking Trojan... Macro malware often relies on social engineering to convince the mark to open a file and disable the default protection. It is not terribly sophisticated but yet it has seen a bit of a revive in recent months with -spam- being the preferred delivery method. The best protection against these types of threats is to be particularly cautious before opening attachments, even if they are ‘classic’ Microsoft Office documents... This holiday season, whether you believe in Santa or not, please be extra cautious with offers that sound too good to be true. The bad guys like to make believe, but we’d rather leave them empty handed or send them off with a lump of coal."
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Fake 'Postal Notification' SPAM - malicious notification.exe
- http://blog.mxlab.eu/2014/12/24/fak...om-fedex-download-malicious-notification-exe/
Dec 24, 2014 - "... intercepted a new trojan distribution campaign by email with the subject “Postal Notification Service”. This email is sent from the spoofed address “”Fedex >” <voyeuristicxd@ jackpowerspiritbind .us>” and has the following body:

Screenshot: http://img.blog.mxlab.eu/2014/20141224_fedex.gif

The embedded URL, in our sample hxxp ://appimmobilier .com/notification.exe, will download the 58 kB large file notification.exe. The trojan is known as Win32/TrojanDownloader.Wauchos.AF, UDS

angerousObject.Multi.Generic or Win32.Trojan.Inject.Auto. At the time of writing, 3 of the 56 AV engines did detect the trojan at Virus Total*..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...869053c4a09f11c9bec830c542fc5720be8/analysis/

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AplusWebMaster · Dec 29, 2014

Phish - "Your Netflix Account Has Been Suspeded", 64-bit Version of HAVEX malware ...

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Phish - "Your Netflix Account Has Been Suspeded"
- http://blog.mxlab.eu/2014/12/29/phishing-email-your-netflix-account-has-been-suspeded/
Dec 29, 2014 - "... intercepted a phishing campaign by email with the subject “Your Netflix Account Has Been Suspeded [#654789]”. This email is sent from the spoofed address “”secure@ netflix .ssl .co.uk” <secure@ netflix .ssl .co.uk>” and has the following body:

Screenshot: http://img.blog.mxlab.eu/2014/20141229_netflix_1.gif

In our sample, the URL takes us to the phishing site located at hxxp ://netflix-validation- uk .co .uk/~netflix/authcode.22e2839f6ea44972845f1e0b02f397ba/email_identifier=71a605276e146b93e52b0c1bfb98ade285c337b0a6b7e5f3f560fd5bb11f1d1c/d0446fac4ba6feceb507af17e1b0bca8/Login.php
This shows us an identical copy of the official Netflix login page. Screenshot of the member login form on the phishing web site:
> http://img.blog.mxlab.eu/2014/20141229_netflix_2.gif
After submitting the login and password, the phishing process begins by asking to fill in our billing information.
> http://img.blog.mxlab.eu/2014/20141229_netflix_3.gif
Followed by filling in our credit card details:
> http://img.blog.mxlab.eu/2014/20141229_netflix_4.gif
Our account seems to be updated and we can continue:
> http://img.blog.mxlab.eu/2014/20141229_netflix_5.gif
…. straight to the official Netflix login site:
> http://img.blog.mxlab.eu/2014/20141229_netflix_6.gif "
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64-bit Version of HAVEX seen - ICS
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/64-bit-version-of-havex-spotted/
Dec 29, 2014 - "The remote access tool (RAT) HAVEX* became the focus of the security industry after it was discovered to have played a major role in a campaign targeting industrial control systems (ICS). While observing HAVEX detections (known by different vendors as Dragonfly, Energetic Bear, and Crouching Yeti), we noticed something interesting. The Dragonfly campaign was previously believed to be compatible with only for 32-bit versions as most mission critical systems would most likely Windows XP, which has since been listed as end of support. In contrast, we came across two interesting infections running on Windows 7 systems. First 64-bit HAVEX Sighting: Based on our analysis (seen in the chain below), a file called TMPpovider023.dll, detected as BKDR64_HAVEX.A, was found, which creates several files in the file system. It should be noted that TMPprovider0<2-digit version number>.dll is a known indicator of HAVEX and is the component of this threat that interacts with the command-and-control (C&C) servers to perform downloads or receive execution commands associated with it.
> File installation chain: http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/files/2014/12/64havex1.jpg
... we’re seeing three indicators of BKDR_HAVEX:
- The file TMPProvider023.dll, as indicated above, with the number indicating the version of this HAVEX RAT (v023)
- A dropped file named 34CD.tmp.dll, detected as BKDR_HAVEX.SM. At this point, the file is being repeatedly detected and quarantined by the installed Trend Micro product. This was later found out to be version 29 or v029 of HAVEX.
- C&C communication from the host and back
... a 64-bit file, was upgraded to a 32-bit v029 HAVEX RAT. This now brings us to four files that seem to be interrelated in one single infection, as seen below:
File name SHA1 Compile Date Architecture
%TEMP%\TMPprovider023.dll 997C0EDC9E8E67FA0C0BC88D6FDEA512DD8F7277 2012-10-03 AMD64
%TEMP%\34CD.tmp.dll CF5755D167077C1F8DEEDDEAFEBEA0982BEED718 2013-04-30 I386
%TEMP%\734.tmp.dll BFDDB455643675B1943D4E33805D6FD6884D592F 2013-08-16 I386
%TEMP%\4F2.tmp.dll 8B634C47087CF3F268AB7EBFB6F7FBCFE77D1007 2013-06-27 I386
... In this particular infection, the v023 HAVEX file was using the same command-and-control server as that of the v029 HAVEX file... Currently, we have seen at least four IP addresses communicating to the command-and-control server, two of which have exhibited the behavior of upgrading the version of the C&C module of the HAVEX RAT... the HAVEX RAT has gone through several iterations—used in campaigns with ICS/SCADA and even pharmaceutical targets, nothing prevents it from being used again and again. ICS operators have to take note that the structure of the HAVEX binaries resemble much of what we see in common Windows malware – more so now that we’ve seen Windows 7 64-bit infections. It is thereby important to validate software being installed on endpoints within the environment, and to frequently monitor HTTP traffic..."
(More detail at the trendmicro URL at the top of this post.)
* Havex infection (ICS)/SCADA systems chain:
> http://about-threats.trendmicro.com/resources/images/HAVEX_2.jpg

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AplusWebMaster · Dec 30, 2014

'Worm' removed at hacked nuclear plant, Target hacks hit OneStopParking .com, MORE...

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'Worm' removed at hacked South Korea nuclear operator
- http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/30/us-nuclear-southkorea-cybersecurity-idUSKBN0K80J620141230
Dec 30, 2014 - "South Korean authorities have found evidence that a low-risk computer "worm" had been removed from devices connected to some nuclear plant control systems, but no harmful virus was found in reactor controls threatened by a hacker. Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co Ltd said it would beef up cyber security by hiring more IT security experts and forming an oversight committee, as it came in for fresh criticism from lawmakers following recent hacks against its headquarters. The nuclear operator, part of state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp, said earlier this month that non-critical data had been stolen from its systems, while a hacker threatened in Twitter messages to close three reactors. The control systems of the two complexes housing those reactors had not been exposed to any malignant virus, Seoul's energy ministry and nuclear watchdog said in a joint statement on Tuesday, adding the systems were -inaccessible- from external networks. The nuclear plant operator said on Tuesday it was increasing the number of staff devoted to cyber security from 53 to around 70, and would set up a committee of internal and external experts to oversee security..."
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Target hacks hit OneStopParking .com
- http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/12/target-hackers-hit-onestopparking-com/
Dec 30, 2014 - "Parking services have taken a beating this year at the hands of hackers bent on stealing credit and debit card data. This week’s victim — onestopparking .com — comes compliments of the same organized crime gang thought to be responsible for stealing tens of millions of card numbers from shoppers at Target and Home Depot. Late last week, the cybercrime shop best known for being the first to sell cards stolen in the Target and Home Depot breach moved a new batch of cards taken from an unknown online merchant. Several banks contacted by KrebsOnSecurity acquired cards from this batch, and determined that all had one thing in common: They’d all been used at onestopparking .com, a Florence, Ky. based company that provides low-cost parking services at airport hotels and seaports throughout the United States. Contacted about the suspicious activity that banks have traced back to onestopparking .com, Amer Ghanem, the site’s manager, said the company began receiving complaints from customers about a week before Christmas...
Cards from the “Solidus” base at Rescator map back to One Stop Parking
> http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/solidus-600x291.png
This was the second time in as many weeks that this cybercrime shop –Rescator[dot]cm — has put up for sale a batch of credit cards stolen from an online parking service: On Dec. 16, this KrebsOnSecurity reported that the same shop was selling cards stolen from Park-n-Fly, a competing airport parking reservation service. Sometime over the past few days, Park-n-Fly announced it was suspending its online service... a security update posted on the company’s site*. Park ‘N Fly noted that it is still taking reservations over the phone... Last month, SP Plus — a Chicago-based parking facility provider — said** payment systems at 17 parking garages in Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle that were -hacked- to capture credit card data after thieves installed malware to access credit card data from a remote location. Card data stolen from those SP+ locations ended up for sale on a competing cybercrime -store- called Goodshop. In Missouri, the St. Louis Parking Company recently disclosed*** that it learned of a breach involving card data -stolen- from its Union Station Parking facility between Oct. 6, 2014 and Oct. 31, 2014."
* http://www.pnf.com/security-update/

** http://www.qconline.com/news/illino...cle_dabd4256-2aa2-5005-b09e-30feecb95eb1.html

*** http://stlouisparking.com/press-release/
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Instagram Profile Deletion Hoax
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2014/12/january-1st-instagram-profile-deletion-hoax/
Dec 30, 2014 - "... accounts on Instagram claiming a mass purge is coming on January 1, 2015 unless your account is “verified”, with the aid of a so-called Verification Arrow. Profiles such as the one below (with 110k followers at time of writing) are receiving a fair amount of traction with between 5,000-8,000 likes per image (I got 6 for a picture of a cat once), stating:

If your account doesn't have a picture of an arrow next to it then it's in the process of being deleted. To get your arrow, please follow the instructions below
1) Follow @verifyingarrows
2) Repost our photo
3) Tag @verifyingarrows
4) Hashtag #verifyingarrows
Screenshot: https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/instaarrow2.jpg
Here’s a similar profile – now deleted – which managed to grab 245k followers before being banned itself:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/instaarrow1.jpg
The “arrow” in question appears to be nothing more than a drop down box on profiles which suggests accounts similar to the one you’re looking at. It has -nothing- to do with profile verification or dodging deletion waves. Regardless, panicked Instagram users appear to be jumping on the ban(d)wagon and doing what they can to fend off a profile extinction event that is never going to arrive. In terms of what the ultimate end game is with all of this, it’s a case of wait and see for the time being. This is either just a -hoax- for the sake of it, or maybe the accounts asking people to bolster their visibility on Instagram will suddenly start selling something come the New Year. Whatever they’re up to, you can safely -ignore- these profiles and carry on taking selfies and pictures of sandwiches, with or without a filter."
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Apple Store 'Transaction Cancellation Form' Phish...
- http://www.hoax-slayer.com/apple-store-transaction-cancellation-phishing-scam.shtml
Dec 30, 2014 - "According to this email, which purports to be from Apple, you have purchased a TomTom from the Apple Store (GPS car navigation system). The email explains that, if you did not authorise the TomTom purchase, you should click-a-link-to-access an Apple Store Transaction Cancellation Form. Supposedly, by filling in the form, the purchase will be cancelled and you will receive a full refund. However, the email is -NOT- from Apple and the claim that you have bought a Tom Tom is just a ruse designed to trick you into clicking the 'cancel' link.
Clicking the link takes you to a website that hosts a -fake- Apple Store 'Cancellation' form. The -fake- form asks you to provide name and contact details as well as your credit card and banking information.
Clicking the 'Cancel Transaction' button will send all of your information to criminals who can then use it to commit financial -fraud- and identity theft.
The scammers bank on the fact that at least a few recipients of the email will be -panicked- into clicking the link and supplying their information in the mistaken belief that someone has made fraudulent purchases in their name."
> http://www.hoax-slayer.com/images/apple-store-transaction-cancellation-phishing-scam-1.jpg

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AplusWebMaster · Dec 31, 2014

'NetGuard Toolbar' SPAM, PUP borrows tricks from malware authors

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'NetGuard Toolbar' SPAM
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2014/12/netguard-toolbar-ngcmpcom-spam.html
31 Dec 2014 - "Sometimes a spam comes through and it isn't immediately obvious what they are trying to do:
From: Brad Lorien [bclorien@ ngcmp .com]
Date: 31 December 2014 at 01:12
Subject: Real estate (12/30/2014)
Our company reaches an online community of almost 41 million people,
who are mostly US and Canadian based. We have the ability to present
our nearly 41 million strong network with a best, first choice when
they are looking online for what your company does.
We are seeking a preferred choice to send our people who are looking
for real estate in Abilene and surrounding markets.
I’m in the office weekdays from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific time.
Best regards,
Brad Lorien
Network Specialist, SPS EServices
Phone: (877) 489.2929, ext. 64

There is no link or attachment in the email. So presumably the spammer is soliciting replies to the email address bclorien@ ngcmp .com which is a valid address. The domain ngcmp.com uses a mail server mail.ngcmp .com to receive email messages, hosted on 38.71.66.127 (PSInet / Virtual Empire, US)... the spam was sent via a relay at 38.71.66.126 which is one IP different from the server handling incoming mail, which pretty much firmly identifies that whoever controls the ngcmp .com domain is actually sending the spam. The mail headers also identify the originating IP as well as the relay, which is a Verizon Wireless customer at 75.215.49.211, possibly someone sending spam using throwaway cell phones to avoid being traced. An examination of those two PSInet addresses shows the following domains are associated with them:
ncmp .co
ngmp .co
ngcmp .com
ng-portal .com
ngcmp .net
ng-central .net
luxebagscloset .com
reviewwordofmouth .com
All of these domains have -anonymous- WHOIS details, but you can see that there is a common pattern here. I don't recommend that you visit spam sites... I did in this case to see what it was about:
> https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HeHlNoeUd6U/VKPab3DijjI/AAAAAAAAGEU/GhzY1GyW6ok/s1600/netguard.png
This is basically -adware- . Going back to the original spam message, these "41 million people" are presumably suckers who have downloaded this crap, and NG Systems are busy spamming out to find more low-life advertisers to fill up their network... Predictably, there seems to be -no- such corporation as "NG Systems", but if you download the Toolbar it turns out it is digitally -signed- by a company called "IP Marketing Concepts, Inc." ... The executable itself is tagged by only one AV engine* as malicious, but VirusTotal does note that it looks like a PUA. Malwr notes** that individual components appear to be Russian in origin. So all in all, this spam is being sent out by a company that goes a very, very long way to disguise its origins..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...12068a02da8425a5d860b132/analysis/1420024818/

** https://malwr.com/analysis/ZjdjZDYzMzVlZTkzNDAwM2E2Y2U1NzRjNTUyNjhmNjM/
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PUP borrows tricks from malware authors
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud...-program-borrows-tricks-from-malware-authors/
Dec 31, 2014 - "... These days it is getting harder and harder to download a program from its official source, in its original format, without additional pieces of software bundled to it:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/back-965x395.png
Companies specializing in so-called ‘download assistants’ or ‘download managers’ claim that they:
Provide a value added service to users by suggesting additional programs tailored to the users’ needs.
Offer a way for software manufacturers to monetize their free applications.
Let’s have a look for ourselves by checking an installer for the Adobe Flash Player. The details are as follows:
Name: adobe_flash_setup.exe
Size: 809.0 KB
MD5: d549def7dd9006954839a187304e3835
imphash: 884310b1928934402ea6fec1dbd3cf5e
Out of the box: The first thing we noticed was that the program behaves differently whether it is launched on a real physical machine or a Virtual Machine:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/schema-1024x782.png
In a VM such as VirtualBox, the installer skips all the bundled offers and goes straight for the Flash Player... There might be a few reasons for this:
To avoid unnecessary impressions and installs on ‘fake’ systems that would skew metrics.
To appear as a ‘clean’ installer when installed on automated sandboxes or by hand from security researchers.
Anti-vm behavior does not necessarily mean that the application is malicious, but it -is- something that many malware authors use... The certificate details show that said company is located in Tel Aviv, Israel and a VirusTotal scan* hints at a connection with InstallCore, a “digital content delivery platform”... There are also various other offers bundled in this installer, courtesy of “distributer” called Entarion Ltd., with an “address” conveniently located in Cyprus, well-known as a safe haven for offshore companies... Malwarebytes’ criteria for listing a program as a PUP can be viewed here**. The list is pretty thorough and will most likely continue to evolve as PUP makers diversify their operations. Consumers should be able to make educated choices rather than being mislead down a path that they didn’t intend to take..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...b3f3e28cbfa906c7f371a24cbae11276d0b/analysis/

** https://www.malwarebytes.org/pup/

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 2, 2015

Evil network: 217.71.50.0/24 ...

FYI...

Evil network: 217.71.50.0/24 / ELTAKABEL-AS / TXTV d.o.o. Tuzla / aadeno@ inet .ba
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2014/12/evil-network-2177150024-eltakabel-as.html
31 Dec 2014 - "This post by Brian Krebs* drew my attention to a block of Bosnian IP addresses with an unusually bad reputation. The first clue is given by Google's safe browsing diagnostics**..
** http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=AS:198252
Some of those domains rang a bell to do with recent malware attacks. One odd thing that struck me was that this is a sparsely populated but relatively large*** collection of IP addresses that appear to be mostly allocated to broadband customers rather than web hosts. An investigation into what was lurking in this AS highlighted a problem block of 217.71.50.0/24 which contains very -many- bad sites...
*** http://bgp.he.net/AS198252#_prefixes
... appears to be a block suballocated to someone using the email address aadeno@ inet .ba. I took a look at the sites hosted in this /24... There are 37 malicious websites (identified by Google) out of 185 that I found in this network range. The usual level of badness tends to be around 1%, but here it is 20%. Looking at the domains, it appears that there is nothing at all of value here and you can probably count them all as malicious.
Recommended blocklist:
217.71.50.0/24 ..."
(Long list at the dynamoo URL at the top.)

* http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/12/lizard-kids-a-long-trail-of-fail/

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 2, 2015

binarysmoney .com / clickmoneys .com / thinkedmoney .com "job" SPAM

FYI...

binarysmoney .com / clickmoneys .com / thinkedmoney .com "job" SPAM
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/binarysmoneycom-clickmoneyscom.html
2 Jan 2015 - "I've been plagued with these for the past few days:
Date: 2 January 2015 at 11:02
Subject: response
Good day!
We considered your resume to be very attractive and we thought the vacant position in our company could be interesting for you.
We cooperate with different countries and currently we have many clients in the world.
Part-time and full-time employment are both currently important.
We offer a flat wage from $1500 up to $5000 per month.
The job offers a good salary so, interested candidates please registration on the our site: www .binarysmoney .com
Attention! Accept applications only on this and next week.
Respectively submitted
Personnel department

Subject lines include:
New employment opportunities
Staff Wanted
Employment invitation
new job
New job offer
Interesting Job
response
Spamvertised sites seen so far are binarysmoney .com, clickmoneys .com and thinkedmoney .com, all multihomed on the following IPs:
46.108.40.76 (Adnet Telecom / "Oancea Mihai Gabriel Intreprindere Individuala", Romania)
201.215.67.43 (VTR Banda Ancha S.A., Chile)
31.210.63.94 (Hosting Internet Hizmetleri Sanayi Ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi, Turkey)
Another site hosted on these IPs is moneyproff .com. All the domains have apparently -fake- WHOIS details.
It looks like a money mule spam, but in fact it leads to some binary options trading crap.
> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-91ORuyJxnpU/VKZ0LXPbKMI/AAAAAAAAGFA/cngzfgKroWg/s1600/binary-options.jpg
... that's just a Shutterstock stock photo that is pretty widely used on the web. In fact, everything about this whole thing is a cookie-cutter site with text and images copied from elsewhere. Binary options are a haven for scammers, and my opinion is that this is such a -scam- given the spammy promotion and hidden identity of the operators. I would recommend that you avoid this and also block traffic to the following IPs and domains:
46.108.40.76
201.215.67.43
31.210.63.94
clickmoneys .com
thinkedmoney .com
binarysmoney .com
moneyproff .com"

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 3, 2015

Fake 'Thank you' SPAM - malware

FYI...

Fake 'Thank you' SPAM - malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/thank-buying-acrobat-xi-pro-malware/
3 Jan 2015 - "'Thank you for buying from Acrobat XI Pro' pretending to come from Plimus Sales <receipt@ plimus .com> with a link to a malicious website is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... Plimus is a genuine affiliate marketing service/reseller/payment gateway for many software companies including Adobe. If you look carefully at the email, you can see the links are to IPLIMUS -not- plimus...

Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Thank-you-for-buying-from-Acrobat-XI-Pr.jpg

3 January 2015: adbx1pro.exe : | Current Virus total detections: 25/56*
This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...a39f4bd8560df6ab369d3fb5/analysis/1420298571/

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 5, 2015

Phish - 'Tesco Important Notification' ...

FYI...

Phish - 'Tesco Important Notification' ...
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/tesco-important-notification-phishing/
5 Jan 2015 - "'Tesco Important Notification' pretending to come from Tesco .com offering you -free- Tesco vouchers is one of the latest -phish- attempts to steal your Tesco bank Account and your other personal details. This one wants your personal details, Tesco log in details and your credit card and bank details. Many of them are also designed to specifically steal your email, facebook and other social network log in details as well. If you are unwise enough to fill in the personal details and security questions, there is a very high likelihood that information could be used to compromise any other account or log in ANYWHERE on the net... don’t ever click the link in the email. If you do it will lead you to a website that looks at first glance like the genuine Tesco -bank- website but you can clearly see in the address bar, that it is -fake- ... Some versions of this -phish- will ask you fill in the html ( webpage) form that comes attached to the email...

If you follow the link you see a webpage looking like:
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/tesco_vouchers1-1024x606.jpg

Then you get a page asking for password and Security number:
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/tesco_vouchers2-1024x534.jpg

After you fill in your Security number and password you get a page looking like this, where the phishers try to validate your details to make sure that you are entering “genuine ” information. They make sure that the bank account numbers have the correct number of digits and that the credit card numbers have the correct number of digits and format:
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/tesco_vouchers3-1024x746.jpg

Then they send you to this page and eventually it auto redirects you to the genuine Tesco bank site:
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/tesco_vouchers4-1024x625.jpg

All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email... whether it is a straight forward attempt, like this one, to steal your personal, bank, credit card or email and social networking log in details. Be very careful when unzipping them and make sure you have “show known file extensions enabled“, And then look carefully at the unzipped file. If it says .EXE then it is a problem and should not be run or opened."

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 6, 2015

hqq .tv serving up Exploit kit, Fake 'National Payments', Fake 'PAYMENT ADVICE' SPAM

FYI...

hqq .tv serving up Exploit kit (via Digital Ocean and Choopa)
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/hqqtv-serving-up-exploit-kit-via.html
6 Jan 2014 - "... here's an infection chain starting from a scummy-looking video streaming site called cine-stream .net. I do not recommend visiting any of the sites labelled [donotclick]
Step 1
[donotclick]cine-stream .net/1609-le-pre-nol-est-une-ordure-en-streaming.html
89.248.170.206 (Ecatel Ltd, Netherlands)
URLquery report: http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=1420561240827
Step 2
[donotclick]hqq .tv/player/embed_player.php?vid=7SO84O65X5SM&autoplay=no
199.83.130.198 (Incapsula, US)
Step 3
[donotclick]agroristaler .info/dasimotulpes16.html
128.199.48.44 (Digital Ocean, Netherlands)
URLquery report: http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=1420561209263
Step 4
[donotclick]aflesministal .info/chat.html
178.62.147.144 (Digital Ocean, Netherlands)
128.199.52.108 (Digital Ocean, Netherlands)
Step 5
[donotclick]pohfefungie .co.vu/VUZQBUgAAgtAGlc.html
[donotclick]eixaaweexum .co.vu/VxFVBkgAAgtAGlc.html
108.61.165.69 (Choopa LLC / Game Servers, Netherlands)
URLquery report: http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=1420560803160
The Digital Ocean and Choopa IPs host several apparently malicious domains:
108.61.165.69
eixaaweexum .co.vu
ienaakeoke .co.vu
weswalkers .co.vu
pohfefungie .co.vu
vieleevethu .co.vu
178.62.147.144
128.199.52.108
sebitibir .info
abrisgalor .info
aflesministal .info
128.199.48.44
abibruget .info
alsonutird .info
fiflakutir .info
fistikopor .info
agroristaler .info
poliloparatoser .info
In my opinion, .co.vu domains are often bad news and are good candidates for blocking. In the mean time I would recommend the following -minimum- blocklist:
108.61.165.69
178.62.147.144
128.199.52.108
128.199.48.44 "
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Fake 'National Payments Centre' SPAM - malware
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-sgbd-national-payments.html
6 Jan 2015 - "This -fake- financial spam has a malicious payload:
Date: 6 January 2015 at 08:56
Subject: This is your Remittance Advice #ATS29858
DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS
Please find attached your remittance advice from Saint Gobain UK.
For any queries relating to this remittance please notify the Payment Enquiry Team on 01484913947
Regards,
SGBD National Payments Centre

Note that this email is a forgery. Saint Gobain UK are -not- sending the spam, nor have their systems been compromised in any way. Instead, criminals are using a -botnet- to spam out malicious Excel documents. Each email has a different reference number, and the attachment file name matches. The telephone number is randomly generated in each case, using a dialling code of 01484 which is Huddersfield (in the UK). There will probably be a lot of confused people in Huddersfield at the moment.
There are actually four different versions of the -malicious- Excel file, none of which are detected by anti-virus vendors [1] [2] [3] [4] containing four different but similar macros... which then download a component from one of the following locations:
http ://213.174.162.126:8080 /mans/pops.php
http ://194.28.139.100:8080 /mans/pops.php
http ://206.72.192.15:8080 /mans/pops.php
http ://213.9.95.58:8080 /mans/pops.php
This file is downloaded as test.exe and it then saved as %TEMP%\1V2MUY2XWYSFXQ.exe. It has a VirusTotal detection rate of just 3/48*. That report shows that the malware then connects to the following URLs:
http ://194.146.136.1:8080/
http ://179.43.141.164/X9BMtSKOfaz/e&WGWM+o%3D_c%26%248/InRRqJL~L
http ://179.43.141.164/TiHlXjsnCOo8%2C/fS%24P/VZFrel2ih%2Dlv+%26aTn
http ://179.43.141.164/suELl1XsT%2CFX.k%26z4./sn%3F=/%3Ffw/HFBN@8J
http ://179.43.141.164/fhmhi/igm/c&@%7E%2Dj.==m~cg_%2B%2C%3Daggs.%2Dkgm%26$~@fk@g/a%2Cgm+lkb%2D.~$kh/
194.146.136.1 is allocated to PE "Filipets Igor Victorovych" in Ukraine. 179.43.141.164 is Private Layer Incin Panama. I would definitely recommend blocking them and possibly the entire /24s in which they are hosted. The Malwr report shows no activity, indicating that it is hardened against analysis.
Recommend blocklist:
194.146.136.1
179.43.141.164
213.174.162.126
194.28.139.100
206.72.192.15
213.9.95.58 "
1] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...bd2c1ce1a4834071eca03451/analysis/1420539739/

2] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...78b6ea8cca0baefdcacf0bc7/analysis/1420539746/

3] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...b0835c774352d4344bbea86f/analysis/1420539753/

4] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...005f07a904fa02cff04e8efd/analysis/1420539759/

* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...9a87b4e17d1d9b0e4bbbf87c/analysis/1420540311/

- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/sgbd-national-payments-centre-remittance-advice-excel-xls-malware/
6 Jan 2015
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Fake 'PAYMENT ADVICE' malware SPAM
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/payment-advice-06-jan-2015-malware-spam.html
6 Jan 2015 - "This spam has a malicious attachment:
From: Celeste , Senior Accountant
Date: 6 January 2015 at 10:13
Subject: PAYMENT ADVICE 06-JAN-2015
Dear all,
Payment has been made to you in amount GBP 18898,28 by BACS.
See attachment.
Regards,
Celeste
Senior Accountant

I have only seen one sample so far, with a document BACS092459_473.doc which has a VirusTotal detection rate of 0/56* and which contains this macro... which attempts to download an additional component from:
http ://206.72.192.15:8080 /mans/pops.php
This is exactly the same file as seen in this parallel spam run** today and it has the same characteristics."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...00986e8a3634f2840602e215/analysis/1420543064/

** http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-sgbd-national-payments.html

- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/senior-accountant-payment-advice-06-jan-2015-word-doc-malware/
6 Jan 2015
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MS warns of new malware attacks w/ Office docs
- http://www.techworm.net/2015/01/microsoft-warns-new-malware-attacks-office-documents.html
Jan 5, 2015 - "Microsoft has warned its Microsoft Office users of significant rise in malware attacks through macros in Excel and Word programs. In a report published on its blog*, Microsoft says that there is more than a threefold jump in the malware campaigns spreading two different Trojan downloaders. These Trojan downloaders arrive in -emails- masquerading as orders or invoices. The malwares are being spread through spam emails containing following subject lines accordingly to Microsoft:
ACH Transaction Report
DOC-file for report is ready
Invoice as requested
Invoice – P97291
Order – Y24383
Payment Details
Remittance Advice from Engineering Solutions Ltd
Your Automated Clearing House Transaction Has Been Put On ...
...the attachment containing Adnel and Tarbir campaigns is usually named as following :
20140918_122519.doc
813536MY.xls
ACH Transfer 0084.doc
Automated Clearing House transfer 4995.doc
BAC474047MZ.xls
BILLING DETAILS 4905.doc
CAR014 151239.doc
ID_2542Z.xls
Fuel bill.doc
ORDER DETAILS 9650.doc
Payment Advice 593016.doc
SHIPPING DETAILS 1181.doc
SHIP INVOICE 1677.doc
SHIPPING NO.doc
Microsoft Technet blog* says that the two Trojan downloaders, TrojanDownloader:W97M/Adnel and TrojanDownloader:O97M/Tarbir are being spread at a rapid pace through spam emails and phishing campaigns..."
* http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2015/01/02/before-you-enable-those-macros.aspx
2 Jan 2015

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 7, 2015

Exploit kits - Nuclear EK, Fake 'Accounts Payable', Fake 'NUCSOFT-Payroll' SPAM

FYI...

Exploit kits on Choopa LLC / Gameservers .com IP addresses
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/exploit-kits-on-choopa-llc.html
7 Jan 2015 - "... The characterstics of these malicious landing pages is that they use free domains (currently .co.vu) and seem to have a very short lifespan. As I write this, the following malicious domains are LIVE:
ooshuchahxe .co.vu
ahjoneeshae .co.vu
phamiephim .co.vu
kaemahchuum .co.vu
pahsiefoono .co.vu
kaghaingai .co.vu
buengaiyei .co.vu
ohmiajusoo .co.vu
oodeerahshe .co.vu
paotuchepha .co.vu
aedeequeekou .co.vu
eikoosiexa .co.vu
phielaingi .co.vu
thohbeekee .co.vu
A typical exploit landing page looks like this* [URLquery report] which appears to be the Nuclear EK. These are hosted on the following Choopa LLC / Gamservers .com IP addresses (it is the same company with two different trading names) [clicking the IP leads to the VirusTotal results, ones identified as malicious are highlighted]:
108.61.165.69: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/108.61.165.69/information/
108.61.165.70: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/108.61.165.70/information/
108.61.165.96: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/108.61.165.96/information/
108.61.167.160: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/108.61.167.160/information/
108.61.172.139: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/108.61.172.139/information/
108.61.175.125: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/108.61.175.125/information/
108.61.177.107: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/108.61.177.107/information/
108.61.177.89: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/108.61.177.89/information/
... these domains see to have a very short life. I identified nearly 3000 domains using these nameservers, the following of which are flagged as malicious by Google... Recommended minimum blocklist (Choopa LLC IPs are highlighted):
108.61.123.219
108.61.165.69
108.61.165.70
108.61.165.96
108.61.167.160
108.61.172.139
108.61.172.145
108.61.175.125
108.61.177.107
108.61.177.89
108.61.198.148
108.61.211.121
64.187.225.245
104.224.147.220
UPDATE: Choopa LLC say they have terminated those IPs**. However, it may still be worth reviewing your logs for traffic to these servers as they might identify machines that have been compromised."
* http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=1420560803160

** https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6jzwvTDMi9U/VK1T26Lei_I/AAAAAAAAGFs/H6-oPE7HwA8/s1600/choopa.png
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Huffington Post and Gamezone vistors targeted with malvertising, infected with ransomware
- http://net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2936
Jan 7, 2015 - "The last days of the past and the first days of the current year have been unlucky for visitors of several popular sites including the Huffington Post and Gamezone .com, which were unknowingly serving malicious ads that ultimately led to a ransomware infection. Cyphort Lab researchers first spotted the malvertising campaign on New Year's Eve on the HuffPo's Canadian website. A few days later, the ads were served on HuffingtonPost .com. The ensuing investigation revealed that the source of the ads is advertising .com, an AOL ad-network. Visitors to the sites who were served the ads were automatically redirected to a landing page hosting either the Neutrino or the Sweet Orange exploit kit. The kits served several exploits, and if one of them was successful, a new variant of the Kovter ransowmare was downloaded and executed. Kovter* blocks the targeted computer's keyboard and mouse, usually demands a ransom of around $300, and searches the web browser's history for URLs of adult content sites to include in the ransom note. AOL has been notified of the problem, and has removed the malicious ads from rotation both in their advertising.com ad-network as well as in their adtech .de one... This is not the first time that Kovter was delivered in this way. Another malvertising campaign targeting YouTube users** was spotted in October 2014."
* http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2450

** http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2883
Sweet Orange exploit kit/NeutrinoEK: http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab...tube-ads-lead-to-exploit-kits-hit-us-victims/

>> http://www.cyphort.com/huffingtonpost-serving-malware/
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Fake 'Accounts Payable - Remittance Advice' SPAM - doc malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/senior-accounts-payable-specialist-remittance-advice-word-doc-malware/
7 Jan 2015 - "'Remittance Advice for 945.66 GBP' (random amounts) pretending to come from a random named Senior Accounts Payable Specialist at a random company with a malicious word doc attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... Update: we are also seeing a slightly different version with the subject Invoice 2907.51 GBP (random amounts) with an Excel XLS attachment... The email looks like:

Please find attached a remittance advice for recent BACS payment of 945.66 GBP.
Any queries please contact us.
Katie Carr
Senior Accounts Payable Specialist
BUSHVELD MINERALS LTD

7 January 2015 : REM_5160JW.doc - Current Virus total detections: 4/56*
... [1]connects to 193.136.19.160 :8080//mans/pops.php and downloads the usual dridex to %temp%\1V2MUY2XWYSFXQ.exe Current VirusTotal definitions 4/56**
RBAC_2856PJ.xls Current Virus total detections: 3/56***
... All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...e3c69d02db2756ad527d4e0b/analysis/1420634098/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...465420c2ffa2e713ca7b8256/analysis/1420635840/
... Behavioural information:
TCP connections
194.146.136.1: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/194.146.136.1/information/

*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...1872812c81aafa26bf3b3973/analysis/1420636228/

1] 193.136.19.160: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/193.136.19.160/information/
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Fake 'NUCSOFT-Payroll' SPAM - doc malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/eliza-fernandes-nucsoft-payroll-december-2014-word-doc-malware/
7 Jan 2015 - "'NUCSOFT-Payroll December 2014' pretending to come from Eliza Fernandes <eliza_fernandes@ nucsoft .co.in> with a malicious word doc attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... DO NOT follow the advice they give to enable macros to see the content... The email looks like:

Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/NUCSOFT-Payroll-December-2014.jpg

7 January 2015 : Payroll Dec’14.doc . Current Virus total detections: 2/56*
... All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...06e02a1ec6685bb05231b011/analysis/1420619222/

- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-eliza-fernandes-nucsoft.html
7 Jan 2015
> https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...06e02a1ec6685bb05231b011/analysis/1420623113/

>> https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...d59c68e73ff0d8a20cd36884/analysis/1420624521/

Recommended blocklist:
59.148.196.153: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/59.148.196.153/information/
74.208.11.204: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/74.208.11.204/information/
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Malformed AndroidManifest.xml in Apps Can Crash Mobile Devices
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab...anifest-xml-in-apps-can-crash-mobile-devices/
Jan 7, 2015 - "Every Android app comprises of several components, including something called the AndroidManifest.xml file or the manifest file. This manifest file contains essential information for apps, “information the system must have before it can run any of the app’s code.” We came across a vulnerability related to the manifest file that may cause an affected device to experience a -continuous- cycle of rebooting — rendering the device nearly useless to the user. The Manifest File Vulnerability: The vulnerability can cause the OS to crash through two different ways. The first involves very long strings and memory allocation. Some apps may contain huge strings in their .XML files, using document type definition (DTD) technology. When this string reference is assigned to some of the tags in AndroidManifest.xml (e.g., permission name, label, name of activity), the Package Parser will require memory to parse this .XML file. However, when it requires more memory than is available, the PackageParser will crash. This triggers a chain reaction wherein all the running services stops and the whole system consequently reboots once. The second way involves .APK files and a specific intent-filter, which declares what a service or activity can do. An icon will be created in the launcher if the manifest file contains an activity definition with this specific intent-filter:
<intent-filter>
<action android:name=”android.intent.action.MAIN”/>
<category android:name=”android.intent.category.LAUNCHER”/>
</intent-filter>
If there are many activities defined with this intent-filter, the same number of icons will be created in the home page after installation. However, if this number is too large, the .APK file will trigger a loop of rebooting. If the number of activities is bigger than 10,000:
For Android OS version 4.4, the launcher process will undergo the reboot.
For version L, the PackageParser crashes and reboots. The malformed .APK will be installed by no icon will be displayed. If the number of activities is larger than 100,000, the devices will undergo the -loop- of rebooting...
We have tested and proven that this created APK could -crash- both Android OS 4.4.4, Android OS L, -and- older versions of the platform... While this vulnerability isn’t a technically a security risk, it does put devices at risk in terms of functionality. This vulnerability can essentially leave devices useless. Affected devices can be “rescued” but -only- if the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is activated or enabled. The only solution would be to connect the device to a computer, boot the phone in fastboot mode, and flash the ROM. Unfortunately, such actions can only be done by highly technical users as a mistake can possibly brick a device. For this issue, we recommend that users contact customer service (if their devices are still under warranty) or a reputable repair shop. We have notified Google about this issue."
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Fake Flight QZ8501 Video on Facebook
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud...re-this-fake-flight-qz8501-video-on-facebook/
Jan 6, 2015 - "... If you’re waiting on information with regards what caused the tragic crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, please be aware that the inevitable fake Facebook video links are now putting in an appearance. Here’s one, located at: bergkids(dot)com/qz8501 - The page is pretty bare, save for the imagery of what they claim is the plane in question and the following text:
[CRASH VIDEO] AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Crashed near east coast of Sumatera.
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/fakeqz1.jpg
Clicking the play button encourages Facebook users to share it, before being redirected to an -imitation- YouTube page located at: urvashi(dot)altervista(dot)org/video/vid(dot)php
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/fakeqz2.jpg
While visitors might think this would be the video in question, in actual fact they’re looking at a sort of -fake- video -farm- where clicking the link takes them to a wide variety of phony clip scams... From there, they’re then (re)directed to one of the links in the screenshot above. There’s everything from “You won’t eat [product x] again after seeing this” to non-existent leaked celebrity tapes. Disturbingly, two of the pages claim to show car accidents and one of them uses a rather graphic photograph. Given that people could be arriving there from a personal need to find out more information about the plane crash, this is just more proof that the people behind these pages couldn’t care less... All of the above pages return the visitor to the “main” Altervista URL, where they’ll be asked to share then be sent to another of the links in the -redirect- code. It seems to be a way of trying to drop the links on as many feeds as possible (assuming the Facebook account owner changes the share option from “just me” to people in their social circles). Should the weary clicker grow tired of this digital roundabout and simply sit on the altervista page too long, they’ll find that they’re automatically sent to a page called “Horrific Video”:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/fakeqz5.jpg
Unlike the other pages which simply loop potential victims around while asking them to share links, this one will take them to a -survey- page if the video “player” is clicked... As with all other survey pages, the links could lead to everything from offers and personal questions to ringtone signups or software installs and are usually served up according to region... If you want to know the latest information on the AirAsia crash, please stick to news sources you know and trust. It’s extremely unlikely someone is going to have exclusive footage sitting on some video website you’ve near heard of, and the moment you’re caught in a loop of “Share this on Facebook to view” messages you can bet there’s nothing on offer except someone trying to make a fast buck."

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 8, 2015

Fake 'invoice EME018', Fake 'INVOICE ADVISE' and 'NOVEMBER INVOICE' SPAM – malware

FYI...

Fake 'invoice EME018' SPAM – doc malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/ieuan-james-invoice-eme018-docx-word-doc-malware/
8 Jan 2015 - "'invoice EME018.docx' pretending to come from Ieuan James <emerysieuan@ gmail .com> with a malicious word doc attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... The email has come in corrupted on my email server and looks like this (I am sure some email servers will serve up a working version) :
–Apple-Mail-2E10F14F-2909-483A-9642-7C58A403A905
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
–Apple-Mail-2E10F14F-2909-483A-9642-7C58A403A905
Content-Type: application/msword;
name=”invoice EME018.doc”;
x-apple-part-url=D103C3C9-1CC9-4BE2-89E7-EB608B41F92A
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=”invoice EME018.doc”
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 ...

... extracted the malicious word doc from the content.
8 January 2015 : invoice EME018.doc - Current Virus total detections: 1/56*
According to Dynamoo’s blog[1] this EME018.doc malware file will connect to one of these sites http ://ecovoyage.hi2 .ro/js/bin.exe http ://mateusz321.cba .pl/js/bin.exe - This binary is saved as %TEMP%\oHIGUIgifdg.exe and has a VirusTotal detection rate of 10/55** ..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...dc1023b051fea4ef3da94ece/analysis/1420701971/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...cffc8d08954db13dea1c0678/analysis/1420708713/

1] http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-ieuan-james-invoice.html
8 Jan 2015 - "... this morning I've seen a handful of these malformed malware spams, claiming to be from a Ieuan James and with a subject of invoice EME018.docx. The body text contains some Base64 encoded data which presumably is meant to be an attachment... Recommended minimum blocklist:
59.148.196.153
74.208.11.204
129.215.249.52
78.140.164.160
37.1.208.21
86.156.238.178
In addition I suggest blocking 3NT Solutions LLP / inferno.name IP ranges on sight. I would very strongly recommend blocking the entire 37.1.208.0/21 range..."
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Fake 'INVOICE ADVISE' and 'NOVEMBER INVOICE' SPAM - doc/xls malware
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-invoice-advise-08012015.html
8 Jan 2015 - "These two -spam- runs have different email messages but the same payload. In both cases, there are multiple -fake- senders:
Sample 1 - INVOICE ADVISE 08/01/2015
From: Mia Holmes
Date: 8 January 2015 at 09:11
Subject: INVOICE ADVISE 08/01/2015
Good morning
Happy New Year
Please could you advise on the November GBP invoice in the attachment for me?
Many thanks
Kind Regards
Mia Holmes
Accountant
SULA IRON & GOLD PLC

Sample 2 - NOVEMBER INVOICE
From: Reed Barrera
Date: 8 January 2015 at 09:16
Subject: NOVEMBER INVOICE
Good morning
Happy New Year
Please could you advise on the November GBP invoice in the attachment for me?
Many thanks
Kind Regards
Reed Barrera
Controller
ASSETCO PLC

Other sender names include:
- Marlin Rodriquez
Accountant
CLONTARF ENERGY PLC
- Olive Pearson
Senior Accountant
ABERDEEN UK TRACKER TRUST PLC
- Andrew Salas
Credit Management
AMTEK AUTO
The attachment is in a Word document (in one sample it was a Word document saved as an XLS file). Example filenames include:
RBAC_9971IV.xls
INV_6495NU.doc
2895SC.doc
There are -four- different malicious files that I have seen so far, all with low detection rates [1] [2] [3] [4] which contain in turn one of these macros... leading to a download from one of the following locations:
http ://188.241.116.63 :8080/mops/pops.php
http ://108.59.252.116 :8080/mops/pops.php
http ://178.77.79.224 :8080/mops/pops.php
http ://192.227.167.32 :8080/mops/pops.php
This file is downloaded as g08.exe which is then copied to %TEMP%\1V2MUY2XWYSFXQ.exe. This file has a detection rate of 3/56*. The VT report shows a POST to 194.146.136.1:8080 (PE "Filipets Igor Victorovych", Ukraine) which is a well-known malware server which I recommend that you block. This IP is confirmed in the Malwr report which also shows a dropped DLL which is the same as found in this spam run and has a detection rate of just 2/56**."
1] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...33a565b70b77f4288071b426/analysis/1420712512/

2] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...e4a396584c6f1b83aeacfa92/analysis/1420712527/

3] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...098f7324bbe8c627430a0af6/analysis/1420712717/

4] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...c8244d29f4710dc22bf6e36e/analysis/1420713398/

* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...56204b4d09efff1091a40c89/analysis/1420713841/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...e9fde458fcf526a97563d53b/analysis/1420714510/

- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/november-invoice-word-doc-excel-xls-malware/
8 Jan 2015: INV_7330KQ.doc - Current Virus total detections: 1/56*
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...56204b4d09efff1091a40c89/analysis/1420713841/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
194.146.136.1: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/194.146.136.1/information/

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 9, 2015

Fake 'Monthly Invoice & Report', Fake 'Fax' SPAM - malware

FYI...

Fake 'Monthly Invoice & Report' SPAM - malware
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-do-not-reply-datasharp-uk.html
9 Jan 2015 - "This spam email pretends to be from a wholly legitimate company called Datasharp UK Ltd but it isn't, it is a spoof. Datasharp is not sending the spam, their systems have not been compromised in any way.
From: ebilling@ datasharp .co
Date: 9 January 2015 at 06:55
Subject: DO-NOT-REPLY Datasharp UK Ltd - Monthly Invoice & Report
THIS MESSAGE WAS SENT AUTOMATICALLY
Attached is your Invoice from Datasharp Hosted Services for this month.
To view your bill please go to www .datasharp .co.uk. Allow 24 hours before viewing this information.
For any queries relating to this bill, please contact hosted.services@ datasharp .co.uk or call 01872 266644.
Please put your account number on your reply to prevent delays
Kind Regards
Ebilling

So far I have seen two different Word documents attached with low detection rates at VirusTotal [1] [2] containing one of two malicious macros... which then attempt to download an additional component from the following locations:
http ://TICKLESTOOTSIES .COM/js/bin.exe
http ://nubsjackbox.oboroduki .com/js/bin.exe
The tickletootsies .com download location has been cleaned up, but the other one is still working as it downloads a file with a VirusTotal detection rate of 5/56*. That VirusTotal report also shows that it attempts to POST to 74.208.11.204:8080 (1&1, US) which has been a malware C&C server for several weeks and is definitely worth blocking.
UPDATE: the Malwr report shows connections to the following IPs which I recommend you block:
59.148.196.153
74.208.11.204 "
1] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...f0b0cbbc6ace61d183d2a64a/analysis/1420794297/

2] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...397d310944a1b654fe880d10/analysis/1420794299/

* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...1880a116e0d046ec92784e22/analysis/1420793909/

- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/not-reply-datasharp-uk-ltd-monthly-invoice-report-word-doc-malware/
9 Jan 2015
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-co...Y-Datasharp-UK-Ltd-Monthly-Invoice-Report.jpg

* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...f0b0cbbc6ace61d183d2a64a/analysis/1420787444/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...397d310944a1b654fe880d10/analysis/1420787603/

*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...1880a116e0d046ec92784e22/analysis/1420793909/
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Fake 'Fax' SPAM
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-employee-documents.html
9 Jan 2015 - "This -fake- fax run is a variation of this one* from yesterday.
From: Fax [no-replay@ fax-voice .com]
Date: 9 January 2015 at 14:52
Subject: Employee Documents - Internal Use
DOCUMENT NOTIFICATION, Powered by NetDocuments
DOCUMENT NAME: Fax Documents
DOCUMENT LINK: <redacted> ...

As before, there are several links leading to different download locations... These landing pages lead to a pair of jjencoded javascripts hosted on different files. I explained a little about those last time* ... the download location that you coax out of the script is time-limited. If you wait too long, you get a nonsense script instead. And possibly even more interesting is that every time you download the target ZIP file "message.zip ;.zip ;.zip ;" it seems to be different... That led to -10- different ZIP files containing different EXE files... Although those reports indicate some difference in the port numbers, we can see the following URLs being accessed:
http ://202.153.35.133 :55365/0901us1/HOME/0/51-SP3/0/
http ://202.153.35.133 :55365/0901us1/HOME/1/0/0/
http ://crecrec .com/mandoc/nuts12.pdf
http ://202.153.35.133 :55350/0901us1/HOME/41/7/4/
http ://samrhamburg .com/img/ml1.tar
202.153.35.133 (Excell Media Pvt Lt, India) is probably the key thing to block. Despite the differences in the downloader, they all seem to drop a randomly-named file with identical characterstics in each case. This has a VirusTotal detection rate of 1/55** and you can see the Malwr report for that file here***..."
* http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/myfax-no-replaymy-faxcom-spam-campaign.html

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...539601859c009639d060ce9b/analysis/1420818425/

*** https://malwr.com/analysis/ZjMwNTJiMjEwNDcyNDkxOGEzZTZmZjVjYWE0ZmQwZDU/

202.153.35.133: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/202.153.35.133/information/
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Bingham McCutchen Law Firm Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/107594031823/bingham-mccutchen-law-firm-spam
Jan 9, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
Judicial summons
Typical e-mail details:
Warrant to appear Please be informed that you are expected in the Hamilton County Court of Appeals on February 2nd, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. where the hearing of your case of illegal software use will take place. You may obtain protection of a lawyer, if necessary.
Please bring your identity documents to the Court on the named day. Attendance is compulsory.
The detailed plaint note is attached to this letter, please download and read it thoroughly.
Clerk of court,
Jacob Velez

Malicious URLs:
joalpe.firebearstudio .com/dir.php?bh=oBRzRrtM0A02ooUI1aER2YGsHzIP29bCneRZntfom+A=
Malicious File Name and MD5:
PlaintNote_BinghamMcCutchen_00588315.exe (E1A7061CCB8997EAB296AA84454B072B)

Screenshot: https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/801...4d3632bf5/tumblr_inline_nhwvymzDyH1r6pupn.png

Tagged: law firm, Kuluoz
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Fake CNN Twitter Feeds SPAM weight loss links
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/01/fake-cnn-twitter-feeds-spam-weight-loss-links/
Jan 9, 2014 - "We’ve noticed a number of fake CNN-themed Twitter accounts driving traffic to a couple of different weight loss sites. The accounts in question are:
CNNOnly
TheCNNBreak
MyCNNNews
CNNHotline
All of the above started posting their links in the last few hours... Curiously, they all stopped posting their random mish-mash of memes and joke images around December 18 or 19, so it’s possible they could be formally parked bots which have taken on a new lease of life in some way. We’ve also seen non CNN-themed accounts sending out the same links. To give you an idea of click totals, the stats for two of the links we’ve seen are as follows:
bit(dot)ly/12NTPUP – 25,814 clicks
bit(dot)ly/1zxVKtB – 37,262 clicks
Worth noting that both of those links were created December 10, and as you now have to log into Bit.ly to see additional stats – and I can’t currently login – we can’t comment on what percentage of those clicks are very recent. All the same, we shouldn’t look to keep clicking now and encourage -more- spam as a result. Twitter spam runs are one of those things which will never go away, and it pays to have an idea of the kind of antics* spammers get up to. If you’re looking for some advice on how to keep your Twitter account safe you may wish to look at the latter half of this post** while you’re at it..."
* https://blog.malwarebytes.org/?s=twitter+spam

** https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2014/01/twitter-spam-rides-again-keeping-your-account-safe/

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 12, 2015

Fake 'Summary Paid Against' SPAM - doc malware, TorrentLocker ransomware...

FYI...

Fake 'Summary Paid Against' SPAM - doc malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/jason-bracegirdle-jps-projects-ltd-summary-paid-word-doc-malware/
12 Jan 2015 - "'Summary Paid Against' pretending to come from Jason Bracegirdle JPS Projects Ltd <jason.bracegirdle@ jpsprojectsltd .co.uk>with a malicious word doc attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... This email contains the same malware payload as today’s Invoice from 'simply carpets of Keynsham Ltd' - Word doc malware* although the file attachment has a different name...

Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Summary-Paid-Against.jpg

11 January 2015: Copy of Weekly Summary 28 12 2014 w.e 28.12.14.doc - Current Virus total detections: 3/54**
Be very careful with email attachments. All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/invoice-simply-carpets-keynsham-ltd-word-doc-malware/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...95476816cb0f9ce4100b27e3/analysis/1421063953/

- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/this-fake-finance-email-appears-to-be.html
12 Jan 2015
1] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...08234f8f4c6e9b11698287c7/analysis/1421065786/

2] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...95476816cb0f9ce4100b27e3/analysis/1421065795/

> http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-invoice-from-simply.html
12 Jan 2015
Recommended blocklist:
59.148.196.153
74.208.11.204 "
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Outlook Settings Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/107897760068/outlook-settings-spam
Jan 12, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
Important - New Outlook Settings
Typical e-mail details:
Please carefully read the downloaded instructions before updating settings.
campusnut .com/outlook/settings.html
This e-mail and / or any attachment(s) is intended solely for the above-mentioned recipient(s) and it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you have received it in error, please notify us immediately at helpdesk@ Outlook-us.com and delete the e-mail. You must not copy it, distribute it, disclose it or take any action in reliance on it.

Malicious URLs:
campusnut .com/outlook/settings.html
images .californiafamilyfitness.com/outlook/settings.html
data.gamin .cz/outlook/settings.html
capslik .com/outlook/settings.html
duedisnc .it/outlook/settings.html
cwvancouver .com/outlook/settings.html
eu1.panalinks .com/outlook/settings.html
indemnizaciongarantizada .com/outlook/settings.html
dprofessionals .org/outlook/settings.html
homewoodsuitestremblant .com/outlook/settings.html
ig4mbeco .com/outlook/settings.html
bestni .com/outlook/settings.html
boryapim .com/outlook/settings.html
hinchablessegarra .com/outlook/settings.html
bonificachiana .it/outlook/settings.html
Malicious File Name and MD5:
outlook_setting_pdf.exe (9F2018FC3C7DE300D1069460559659F4)

Screenshot: https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/801...414dd3a33/tumblr_inline_ni2n28AfD81r6pupn.png

Tagged: Outlook, Upatre

- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-important-new-outlook.html
12 Jan 2015
... outlook_setting_pdf.exe
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...9b12ca98656428be1de284a5/analysis/1421077347/
"... Recommended blocklist:
202.153.35.133
morph-x .com
coffeeofthemonth .biz "

202.153.35.133: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/202.153.35.133/information/
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iPhone 6 SCAM
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/01/iphone-6-scam-returns/
Jan 12, 2015 - "... a familiar -scam- on the verge of a come-back:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/brad.png
... we first encountered the spammed link on LinkedIn, thanks to a user named Kolko Kolko, who according to his profile is a coach and has the face of an A-list celebrity. Doing a quick online search using the Goog.gl shortened URL brings up other domains—Google Plus, Livejournal, and Picasa, specifically — where the list is also being posted and shared. Once users click-the-link, they are directed to a survey -scam- page. Below is an example:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/survey.png
The above page is a type of survey that gives users the option to skip. Doing so, however, opens additional layers of survey pages that needs skipping until such a point that users encounter a page they could not escape, such as this:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/more-surveys.png
... the surveys vary depending on the user’s location... Should you encounter any posts from random users on sites you frequent with regard to claiming an iPhone 6, don’t click-the-link... warn friends and contacts on that site to avoid falling for it..."
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Phish - Barclaycard Credit limit increase
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/barclaycard-credit-limit-increase-phishing/
12 Jan 2015 - "'Credit limit increase' pretending to come from Barclaycard <barclaycard@ mail.barclaycard .co.uk>is one of the latest phish attempts to steal your Bank, credit card and personal details. We are seeing a quite big run of this email today. We see these phishing emails frequently, but today’s spam run of them has a much larger number than usual. This one only wants your personal details, Barclaycard log in details and your credit card and bank details. Many of them are also designed to specifically steal your email, facebook and other social network log in details as well...

Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Credit-limit-increase-email.jpg

If you open the attached html file you see a webpage looking like:
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/barclaycard-Credit-limit-increase.jpg
When you fill in your user name and password you get a page where the phishers try to validate your details to make sure that you are entering “genuine ” information. They make sure that the bank account numbers have the correct number of digits and that the credit card numbers have the correct number of digits and format. They then send you on to the genuine Barclaycard website..."
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Google/Microsoft feud over latest 0-day disclosures
- http://www.infoworld.com/article/28...day-disclosure-fuels-feud-with-microsoft.html
Jan 12, 2015 - "... The subject is the long-running feud between Google and Microsoft over the handling of zero-day flaws. Google engineer Tavis Ormandy has built quite a reputation in security circles for finding zero days in Windows and notifying Microsoft. If no action is forthcoming from Microsoft in a pre-determined amount of time (usually 90 days), Ormandy releases the details (presumably with Google's permission), typically on the Full Disclosure mailing list... The process is now formally supported by Google, under the name Project Zero*. There's no better way I know to get Microsoft's attention. The latest instances actually concern two zero-day bugs, both reported by a Google researcher known as Forshaw... Here's how the argument boils down, in my estimation. If you trust Microsoft to fix the holes in Windows, then Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure - where we, as customers, trust Microsoft to dig in and fix problems as soon as they're discovered - is a great idea. We would trust Microsoft to fix the problems expeditiously, because other people may have discovered the problem already. We also trust Microsoft to put enough money into the patching effort to make the fixes appear quickly and accurately. If you don't trust Microsoft, then the question becomes how best to hold Microsoft's feet to the fire. Although some believe in full, immediate disclosure, I don't buy that. There has to be a better way. Google's approach seems to me a reasonable one - although it's arguable that the zero-day notification window should be extended to 120 days..."
* http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.fr/2014/07/announcing-project-zero.html

> http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/arc...ter-coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure.aspx
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TorrentLocker -ransomware- hits ANZ Region
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/torrentlocker-ransomware-hits-anz-region/
Jan 11, 2015 - "... the EMEA (Europe-Middle East-Africa) region experienced a surge in ransomware, specifically, crypto-ransomware attacks. It appears that these attacks are no longer limited to that region. Research from Trend Micro engineers shows that the ANZ (Australia-New Zealand) region is the latest to be greatly affected by this type of malware—this time by TorrentLocker ransomware. The Infection Chain:
Infection diagram for ANZ attacks:
> http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/files/2014/12/ANZ-cryp11.jpg
The malware arrives through -emails- that pretend to be penal notices from the New South Wales government (referred in this entry as “NSW”) -or- shipping information from the Australia Post. Once users click-the-link, they will be -redirected- to a -spoofed- page bearing a newly-registered domain similar to the official, legitimate one. The page instructs users to download a file by first entering a CAPTCHA code. If correctly entered, it triggers the download of the malicious file in a zipped format from SendSpace, a file-hosting site. If the user -opens- the zipped file and executes the malware, it will connect to secure command-and-control (C&C) servers. After successful sending and receiving of information, the malware will then encrypt files in the users’ machines using Elliptic Curve Cryptography Encryption and appends the string .encrypted. Afterwards, it drops an .HTML file with decryption instructions and displays a ransom page. It also deletes the shadow copy of the infected system by executing the command line instruction vssadmin.exe Delete Shadows /All /Quiet, thus preventing the user to restore their files from back-up. Based on feedback from the Smart Protection Network, 98.28% of the recipients are from Australia... ... we have identified several fake domains, 180 for Australia Post and 134 for NSW. These domains are hosted in the following Russian name servers, registered to certain email addresses:
91.218.228.XX
193.124.200.13X
193.124.205.18X
193.124.89.10X
The C&C servers in these attacks are newly registered and hosted under IP addresses ranging from 46.161.30.17 to 46.161.30.49. We have also identified eight domains, including adwordshelper[.]ru and countryregion[.]ru... Sample hashes of the files supported by our detections:
4d07581b5bdb3f93ff2721f2125f30e7d2769270
6a46ff02b1a075c967939851e90dfb36329876fa
9d71e27ad25dfe235dfaec99f6241673a6cff30e
a0bbbd2c75e059d54d217c2912b56b1cb447ef31
0ce7690a209796b530b89f3cac89c90626785b84
09d5bc847f60ce3892159f717548d30e46cd53f0
1816a65aa497877b8f656b87550110e04ac972cd
bee66ab8460ad41ba0589c4f46672c0f8c8419f8 ..."
(More detail at the trendmicro URL at the top of this post.)

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 13, 2015

Fake 'Nat West Secure Message' SPAM – PDF malware

FYI...

Fake 'Nat West Secure Message' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/nat-west-new-secure-message-fake-pdf-malware/
13 Jan 2013 - "'You have a new Secure Message' pretending to come from NatWest <secure.message@ natwest .com> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... The email looks like:
You have received a encrypted message from NatWest Customer Support
In order to view the attachment please open it using your email client ( Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Lotus )
If you have concerns about the validity of this message, please contact the sender directly. For questions please contact the NatWest Bank Secure Email Help Desk at 0131 556 2313.

13 January 2015: SecureMessage.pdf.zip: Extracts to: SecureMessage.pdf.scr
Current Virus total detections: 1/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...025d20d4b00e34bb8839e288/analysis/1421155786/
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Fake 'Tax return' SPAM
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-johnsmithmail-irsgov-your.html
13 Jan 2015 - "This -fake- tax return spam leads to malware:
From: John Smith [mailto:john.smith@ mail-irs .gov]
Sent: 13 January 2015 11:13
Subject: Your tax return was incorrectly filled out
Attention: Owner/ Manager
We would like to inform you that you have made mistakes while completing the last tax form application (ID: 960164707883) .
Please follow the advice of our tax specialists HERE
Please amend the mistakes and send the corrected tax return to your tax agent as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely

The link in the email has a format such as:
http ://marypageevans .com/taxadmin/get_doc.html
http ://laser-support .co.uk/taxadmin/get_doc.html
A journey through some heavily obfuscated javascript follows... which eventually leads to a download called message.zip which contains a malicious executable tax_guide_pdf.exe which changes slightly every time it is downloaded. Incidentally, there seems to be a download limit of about 6 times, after which nonsense text is displayed instead. The .exe file has a VirusTotal detection rate of just 2/57* and Norman identifies it as Upatre. According to the Malwr report it connects to the following URLs:
http ://202.153.35.133 :19639/1301us23/HOME/0/51-SP3/0/
http ://202.153.35.133 :19639/1301us23/HOME/1/0/0/
http ://dstkom .com/mandoc/lit23.pdf
http ://202.153.35.133 :19657/1301us23/HOME/41/7/4/
It also drops a file (in this case called FbIpg60.exe) which has another low detection rate of just 2/57**. Fake IRS spam is quite common, if you don't deal with the IRS then blocking mail-irs .gov on your email gateway might help."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...9525b4333208530716bfe139/analysis/1421160583/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...28124e600d9db357ea3912dc/analysis/1421161232/

202.153.35.133: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/202.153.35.133/information/
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Win7 - End of mainstream support
- http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/win7-reaches-milestone-prepare-for-its-demise/
Jan 8, 2015 - "... Most major Microsoft products have a formal life cycle that includes two key end-of-life dates. For Windows, those dates are listed on Microsoft’s “Windows lifecycle fact sheet” webpage.* The first date — End of mainstream support — effectively means that Microsoft will no longer offer free updates to the operating system. Once mainstream support ends for a specific version of Windows, it then enters its Extended support phase, during which Microsoft offers only essential fixes and security updates. (Companies can also pay for specific nonsecurity updates.) When an OS reaches its End of extended support milestone, all official support ends. Windows XP, as many Windows Secrets readers know, passed its “End of extended support” date on April 8, 2014. It has not had official updates of any kind since. (For more specifics on MS product life cycles, see the online “Microsoft support lifecycle policy FAQ.”) As noted in the “Windows lifecycle fact sheet,” Jan. 13 marks the end of mainstream support for all versions of Windows 7 SP1. What does that mean for the millions of us doing our daily computing on Win7 systems? Very soon, our operating systems will be essentially frozen — we’ll no longer receive any enhancements or nonessential fixes. We will, however, receive monthly security updates until Jan. 14, 2020, Win7’s official “End of extended support” date (at which point, Microsoft will want us on Windows 13 — or whatever it’s then called). Just as with XP this past April, Win7 systems should no longer receive updates of any kind after January 2020..."
* http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle

- http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2390045/microsoft-ends-mainstream-support-for-windows-7
Jan 13 2015

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 14, 2015

Fake 'Invoice' SPAM – doc malware

FYI...

Fake 'Invoice' SPAM – doc malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/les-mills-invoice-word-doc-malware/
14 Jan 2015 - "'Les Mills Invoice' pretending to come from lmuk.accounts@ lesmills .com with a malicious word doc attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... As usual 2 slightly different -malware- versions. The email looks like:
Dear Customer,
Please find attached an invoice for Les Mills goods/services. Please note that for Licence Fee invoices the month being billed is the month in which the invoice has been raised unless otherwise stated within.
If you have any queries please email lmuk.accounts@ lesmills .com or call 0207 264 0200 and select option 3 to speak to a member of the team.
Best regards,
Les Mills Finance Team

14 January 2015 : Les Mills SIV035931.doc - Current Virus total detections: 0/57* : 0/55**
... All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...a6105194e6d46d6d36f6756867bcd596564/analysis/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...36e5eaaf62017abc57f47b11/analysis/1421225265/

- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-les-mills-invoice.html
14 Jan 2015
"... Recommended blocklist:
59.148.196.153
74.208.11.204
81.27.38.97
okurimono.ina-ka .com "
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Fake 'SEPA' SPAM – doc malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/senior-accounts-payable-sepa-remittance-advice-word-doc-malware/
14 Jan 2015 - "'Senior Accounts Payable SEPA REMITTANCE ADVICE 2503.62 EUR 12 JAN 2014' with a malicious word doc attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... The email looks like:
Good Afternoon
Please see attached a copy of remittance advice for SEPA payment of 2503.62 EUR made on 12/01/2015
Regards,
Victoria Mack
Senior Accounts Payable

14 January 2015 : SE827QR.doc - Current Virus total detections: 0/57*
... All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...9664200e1b336ecfdc357fcd/analysis/1421236177/
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Fake Fax SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/nextiva-vfax-fake-pdf-malware/
14 Jan 2015 - "'Fax Received: Fax Server | 1/14/2015 8:21 AM' pretending to come from Nextiva vFax <notifications@ nextivafax .com> with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... The email looks like:
HI ...
Delivery Information:
Message #: 131177970
Local Number: 4853872678
Remote CSID: Fax Server
Total Pages: 2
Transmit Time: 3 min 41.000 sec
Click here to view this message ...
Delivered by vFax… “When Every Fax is Mission Critical”

14 January 2015: fax_message_01142015_784398443.pdf.zip ( 83kb): Extracts to: fax_message_01142015_784398443.pdf.scr - Current Virus total detections: 3/55*
This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...ca07f79067469f871beffdd5/analysis/1421251998/
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Malware sites offering Oracle 'patches'
- https://blogs.oracle.com/proactivesupportDI/entry/malware_sites_offering_oracle_patches
Jan 14, 2015 - "It has come to our attention that there are non-Oracle sites offering Oracle 'fixes' for genuine Oracle error messages... If you do encounter one of these sites please inform us immediately via Communities* or create a SR and we will rectify the situation... Proactive Support are already investigating some known sites..."
* https://community.oracle.com/
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Outlook Phish
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/01/avoid-this-outlook-phish/
Jan 14, 2015 - "... phish mail in circulation... for Outlook accounts. The email reads as follows:
Dear Microsoft User,
Please note we have temporary blocked your account from receiving e-mails, because we detected fraudulent and spam activities from your mail box to some blacklisted email address, So for your own safety verify your account.
If a verification respond is not gotten from you in the next 24 hours, we are sorry we will be forced to permanently disable and delete your account from Microsoft Account.
To verify your Microsoft account, Click Here
We regret Any inconvenience.
Thanks,
The Microsoft account team

Clicking the link in the email – sbmarticles(dot)com/Z-zone/SigrypAmt2nd(dot)htm*, which has already popped up on Phishtank – takes potential victims to a spot of data URI phishing**.
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/uriphish1-300x186.jpg
Don’t be tricked into filling in login details via these types of attack – any email asking you to login or enter personal information (especially when warning you about account suspensions, unusual activity or any other form of shenanigans) should be treated with a generous helping of caution."
* 192.190.80.53: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/192.190.80.53/information/

** http://www.csoonline.com/article/21...sing-data-uris-to-target-google-accounts.html

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 15, 2015

Fake 'invoice', 'Payment request', 'ADP Invoice', 'HSBC' SPAM - malware attached

FYI...

Fake 'invoice' SPAM - malware attached
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-hexis-uk-limited-invoice.html
15 Jan 2015 - "This -fake- invoice has a malicious attachment. It does not comes from Hexis UK Ltd, it is a forgery. Hexis is not sending the spam, nor have their systems been compromised in any way.
From: Invoice from Hexis [Invoice@ hexis .co.uk]
Date: 15 January 2015 at 06:36
Subject: Invoice
Sent 15 JAN 15 08:30
HEXIS (UK) LIMITED
7 Europa Way
Britannia Park
Lichfield
Staffordshire
WS14 9TZ
Telephone 01543 411221
Fax 01543 411246

Attached is a malicious Word document S-INV-CREATIFX-465219.doc which actually comes in -two- different versions (perhaps more) with low detection rates [1] [2] containing two slightly different macros... which download a component from one of the following locations:
http ://dramakazuki.kesagiri .net/js/bin.exe
http ://cassiope .cz/js/bin.exe
This has a VirusTotal detection rate of 3/57*. That report shows the malware phoning home to 74.208.11.204:8080 (1&1 Internet, US) which is a familiar C&C server which you should definitely block traffic to. My sources also identify a couple of other IPs, giving a recommended blocklist of:
59.148.196.153
74.208.11.204
81.27.38.97
UPDATE: the Malwr report shows that it drops a DLL with a VirusTotal detection rate of just 1/57**."
1] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...bc092877354cd96e635b4a4b/analysis/1421314924/

2] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...426b4e07670a335c68280bdb/analysis/1421314937/

* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...a71ba50d832e0ff012373b22/analysis/1421315774/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...5fd863a216d25980c54fad45/analysis/1421318457/

- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/hexis-uk-limited-invoice-word-doc-malware/
15 Jan 2015
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...bc092877354cd96e635b4a4b/analysis/1421309107/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...426b4e07670a335c68280bdb/analysis/1421309412/
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Fake 'Payment request' SPAM - malware attachments
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-payment-request-of-417694.html
15 Jan 2015 - "This -spam- comes with a malicious Word document attached:
from: Alan Case
date: 15 January 2015 at 08:49
subject: Payment request of 4176.94 (14 JAN 2015)
Dear Sirs,
Sub: Remitance of GBP 4176.94
This is with reference to the above, we request you to kindly remit GBP 4176.94 in favor of our bank account.
For more information on our bank details please refer to the attached document.
Thanking you,
Alan Case Remittance Manager

Other names and job titles seen... The payment amount, name and job title change in each spam, as does the name of the attachment (although this following the format ADV0000XX). There are three malicious Word documents that I have seen, each with a low detection rate at VirusTotal [1] [2] [3] which in turn contain a slightly different macro... which attempt to download another component from one of the following locations:
http ://95.163.121.71 :8080/mopsi/popsi.php
http ://95.163.121.72 :8080/mopsi/popsi.php
http ://136.243.237.204 :8080/mopsi/popsi.php
Note the two adjacent IPs of 95.163.121.71 and 95.163.121.72 which belong to Digital Networks CJSC in Russia (aka DINETHOSTING), an IP range of 95.163.64.0/18 that I would recommend you consider blocking. 136.243.237.204 is a Hetzner IP. The macro downloads a file g08.exe from these locations which is then saved as %TEMP%\UGvdfg.exe. This has a VirusTotal detection rate of 4/57*. That VT report also shows the malware attempting to POST to 194.146.136.1:8080 (PE "Filipets Igor Victorovych", Ukraine) which is a well-known bad IP. The Malwr report is inconclusive, but this exectuable probably drops a Dridex DLL.
Recommended blocklist:
194.146.136.1
95.163.121.71
95.163.121.72
136.243.237.204
UPDATE: the following -are- Dridex C&C servers which you should also block:
80.237.255.196 "
1] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...6b804eac6c493b16a7e76881/analysis/1421313787/

2] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...447088e69d791b6f302b322d/analysis/1421313798/

3] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...1a9a534b5f1d33b3c81c5f09/analysis/1421313810/

* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...53847f2816870414dff53eaf/analysis/1421313825/

- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/payment-request-14-jan-2015-word-doc-malware/
15 Jan 2015
15 January 2015 : ADV0291LO.doc - Current Virus total detections: 3/55*
15 January 2015 : 57959SI.xls (35 kb) - Current Virus total detections: 3/57**
| 3093720WF.xls (47 kb) - Current Virus total detections: 2/57***
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...447088e69d791b6f302b322d/analysis/1421309631/

** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...acfdd6bfddc36dc5b2422325/analysis/1421316140/

*** https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...e12ccb28b489322aee0b92df/analysis/1421315881/
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Fake 'open24 .ie important changes alert' SPAM – malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/open24-ie-important-changes-servicesemail-alert-malware/
15 Jan 2015 - "'Some important changes to some services' (email alert) pretending to come from Open24 <inf01@ open24 .ie> is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... The email looks like:
Fwd: Software Upgrade
Dear
Open24 Customer,
We have now implemented a number of
changes to our Internet Banking service. This is to ensure the highest
level of security of information passing between you and our server.
To have access to this service, simply follow the button below and activate the service...
Kind regards
Open24
This email is personal & confidential and is intended for the recipient only...

15 January 2015: open24changes.zip (523 kb) : Extracts to: Payment.scr
Current Virus total detections: 17/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...d324d65658b2789a9858a768/analysis/1421332957/
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Fake 'ADP Invoice' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/johnny-west-adp-invoice-week-ending-01112015-fake-pdf-malware/
15 Jan 2015 - "'ADP Invoice for week ending 01/11/2015' pretending to come from Johnny.West@ adp .com with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... The email looks like:
Your most recent ADP invoice is attached for your review.
If you have any questions regarding this invoice, please contact your ADP service team at the number provided on the invoice for assistance.
Please note that your bank account will be debited within one banking business day for the amount(s) shown on the invoice.
Thank you for choosing ADP for your business solutions.
Important: Please do not respond to this message. It comes from an unattended mailbox.

15 January 2015: invoice_418270412.pdf.zip (11kb): Extracts to: invoice_418270412.pdf.scr
Current Virus total detections: 5/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...0ed5924bf3ea23cbd448db7d/analysis/1421335768/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
202.153.35.133: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/202.153.35.133/information/
174.120.16.66: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/174.120.16.66/information/
69.49.101.51: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/69.49.101.51/information/
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Fake 'HSBC Payment Advice' SPAM – PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/hsbc-payment-advice-advice-refgb956959-chaps-credits-fake-pdf-malware/
15 Jan 2015 - "'Payment Advice – Advice Ref:[GB956959] / CHAPS credits' pretending to come from HSBC Advising Service [mailto:Bankline.Administrator@ nutwest .com] is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and follow the link or open the attachment... The email looks like:
Sir/Madam,
Please download document from dropbox, payment advice is issued at the request of our customer. The advice is for your reference only.
Download link: <redacted>
Yours faithfully,
Global Payments and Cash Management
HSBC ...

When you follow the... link you get a page looking like this, where depending on which browser you are using, you might get a direct download of the zip file containing the -malware- or you might get the message to follow the link... which will give you the malware:
Screenshot: http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/avralab.jpg
15 January 2015: doc974_pdf.zip (11kb) : Extracts to: doc963_pdf.exe
Current Virus total detections: 4/57* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...6923bf4c262367c4c744f69e/analysis/1421341083/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
202.153.35.133: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/202.153.35.133/information/
66.147.240.173: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/66.147.240.173/information/

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 16, 2015

Affordable Care Act Phish, Adobe Phish, Google malvertising ...

FYI...

Affordable Care Act Phishing Campaign
- https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2015/01/15/Affordable-Care-Act-Phishing-Campaign
Jan 15, 2015 - "US-CERT is aware of a phishing campaign purporting to come from a U.S. Federal Government Agency. The phishing emails reference the Affordable Care Act in the subject and claim to direct users to health coverage information, but instead direct them to sites which attempt to elicit private information or install malicious code. US-CERT encourages users to take the following measures to protect themselves:
- Do not follow links or download attachments in unsolicited email messages.
- Maintain up-to-date antivirus software.
- Refer to the Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks Security Tip* for additional information on social engineering attacks..."
* https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/tips/ST04-014
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Fake 'voice mail' SPAM - PDF malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/microsoft-outlook-voicemail-received-voice-mail-fake-pdf-malware/
16 Jan 2015 -"'You have received a voice mail' pretending to come from Microsoft Outlook Voicemail <no-reply@your own domain>with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... The email looks like:
You received a voice mail : VOICE549-693-8777.wav (20 KB)
Caller-Id: 549-693-8777
Message-Id: 8X3NI1
Email-Id: a.j.lefeber14d @ ...
This e-mail contains a voice message.
Download and extract the attachment to listen the message.
Sent by Microsoft Exchange Server

They are not being sent by your own server or email server, but by one of the botnets...
16 January 2015: VOICE44982109219.zip (11kb) : Extracts to: VOICE44982109219.scr
Current Virus total detections: 4/56* . This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have “show known file extensions enabled“, will look like a proper PDF file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...c15fa0374629c4a15b54be08/analysis/1421413445/
... Behavioural information
TCP connections
202.153.35.133: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/202.153.35.133/information/
192.185.16.192: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/192.185.16.192/information/
UDP communications
198.27.81.168: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/198.27.81.168/information/
192.95.17.62: https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/192.95.17.62/information/
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Adobe Phish back in-the-Wild
- https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/01/adobe-phish-back-in-the-wild/
Jan 15, 2015 - "We recently found a -compromised- site serving what appears to be an Adobe phish. Like most phishing campaigns, this one may have originated from a spammed email. Although we do not have the actual sample of said email, it pays to be familiar with what the fraud page looks like and its content, too. Please direct your attention to the screenshot below:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/00-default.png
We can deduce from the page’s content that the spam may have originated from a spoofed Adobe address, promising an important document the recipient has to see. In order to do so, they are then instructed to access their Adobe account by entering their email credentials, specifically for AOL, Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo! The page also caters to credentials for other email providers. Visitors clicking either of the email service brands at the right side of the page changes the user entry fields at the left side to match with the look of the real thing... Some of us may quickly and easily identify that the whole thing is a phishing campaign, but some may also not realize this until it’s too late. Be extra careful when dealing with emails purporting to have come from Adobe... It also pays to remain informed and read Adobe’s page here* on how to avoid falling for phishing schemes."
* https://www.adobe.com/security/prevent-phishing.html
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North Korean News Agency site serves File Infector
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlab...ean-news-agency-website-serves-file-infector/
Jan 16, 2015 - "We were recently alerted to reports* claiming that the website North Korea’s official news service, www.kcna .kp, had been delivering -malware- via embedded malicious code. One of the photo spreads on the website was found to contain malware that launched a watering hole attack on individuals who came to visit the website and its other pages. Below is an infection diagram for the malware associated with this attack:
> http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/files/2015/01/Diagram2.jpg
The mother file in this attack is detected as PE_WINDEX.A-O. As seen in the diagram above, the executable file mscaps.exe drops wtime32.dll, which contains the infection code and backdoor routine. Another executable file mscaps.exe injects code to explorer.exe to stay memory resident. As such, every time the affected system reboots, the malware runs on the system and begins its infection routine. Explorer.exe executes the infection code and targets .EXE files in drive types that are removable or shared, with drive letters traversed from A-Z. We observed that it skips fixed drives. Apart from explorer.exe, this file infector looks for the following processes where it injects its malicious code:
iexplore.exe
ieuser.exe
firefox.exe
chrome.exe
msimn.exe
msnmsgr.exe
outlook.exe
winmail.exe
yahoomessenger.exe
ftp.exe
The website contains an -infected- .ZIP file named FlashPlayer.zip. Our initial analysis shows that the outdated Flash Player installer drops the main file infector WdExt.exe, which we detect as PE_WINDEX.A-O. It copies and renames the file Ws2_32.dll, which is the file for the Windows Sockets API used by most Internet and network applications to handle network connections. PE_WINDEX.A-O also creates the file SP{random}.tmp, which contains system information that may be responsible for the malware’s information theft routines. It gathers data such as date and time, computer name, user name, OS information, MAC address, and more. The embedded malicious code runs on Internet Explorer version 11.0, Mozilla Firefox versions 10.0.9 and 36.0, Safari versions 7.0.3 and 4.0, Opera version 9.00 and 12.14, and Google Chrome 41.0.2228.0. The browsers we tested all displayed the code snippet that includes /download/FlashPlayer10.zip. Based on replicating the attack with an infected sample (calc.exe), we noticed that the file size is almost the same size as the mother file infector, PE_WINDEX.A-O. Additional analysis also shows that PE_WINDEX.A-O has developer metadata that lists its copyright as © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved with its publisher is listed as Microsoft Corporation. Its description and comments contain the text Windows Defender Extension, among other listed information. This may be a disguise for the malware so that users won’t be suspicious about the file..."
* http://arstechnica.com/security/201...reas-official-news-site-delivers-malware-too/
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Google finally quashes month-Old Malvertising Campaign
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/01/16/0129244/google-finally-quashes-month-old-malvertising-campaign
Jan 16, 2015 - "Since the middle of December, visitors to sites that run Google AdSense ads have intermittently found themselves -redirected- to other sites featuring spammy offerings for anti-aging and brain-enhancing products*. While webmasters who have managed to figure out which advertisers are responsible could quash the attacks on their AdSense consoles, only now has Google itself managed to track down the villains and -ban- them from the service."
* http://www.itworld.com/article/2871035/google-nixes-widespread-malvertising-attack.html
Jan 14, 2015

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 17, 2015

iTunes invoice – phish

FYI...

iTunes invoice – phish
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/itunes-invoice-id31wx175t-phishing/
17 Jan 2015 - "'ITunes Your invoice #ID31WX175T' pretending to come from iTunes Store <do_not_reply@ btconnect .com> is one of the latest -phish- attempts to steal your Bank, credit card and personal details. This one is slightly different to usual ones in that it is designed to make you think that it is a mistake and that you need to enter all your bank/credit card details in order to -cancel- the transaction that you never made in the first place... persuading the recipient that somebody must have compromised their ITunes account and telling you to change all the details in it... not only would you lose a lot of money but could also end up losing a lot more. This one only wants your personal details and your credit card and bank details. Many of them are also designed to specifically steal your email, facebook and other social network log in details as well*...
* http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/how-to-protect-yourself-and-tighten-security/
looks at first glance like the genuine Itunes website but you can clearly see in the address bar, that it is fake. Some versions of this phish will ask you fill in the html (webpage) form that comes attached to the email. If you open the attached html file you see a webpage looking like:
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Apple-Store-Purchase-Confirmation.png
When you fill in your user name and password you get a page looking like this, where the phishers try to validate your details to make sure that you are entering “genuine ” information. They make sure that the bank account numbers have the correct number of digits and that the credit card numbers have the correct number of digits and format...make sure you have “show known file extensions enabled“, And then look carefully at the unzipped file. If it says .EXE then it is a problem and should -not- be run or opened."

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AplusWebMaster · Jan 19, 2015

Fake 'order payment slip', Fake 'Natwest' SPAM, “Zombie cookies”

FYI...

Fake 'order payment slip' SPAM - malware
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/pierre-jude-bukasonventure-com-re-order-payment-slip-malware/
19 Jan 2015 - "'RE: order payment slip' coming from info@ bukasonventure .com with a zip attachment is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking credential stealers, which may include cridex, dridex, dyreza and various Zbots, cryptolocker, ransomware and loads of other malware on your computer. They are using email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment... The email looks like:
This is just to inform you that we have made the payment as Requested.
We try to contact you about the payment we made here in our office, but because the payment was made on Friday evening before the bank closed, and our server was down,
PLEASE REFER TO THE ATTACHMENT SLIP
Best regards,
Mr Pierre Jude Genaral Manager
323 Collier Road, Bayswater WA 6053
Phone: (1) 9379 0811
Fax: (1) 9379 0822 ...

These actually look they they are coming from bukasonventure .com which is hosted in USA and was only registered on 15 January 2015. This might be compromised server, have an open relay allowing the emails to be sent or have been registered under a false set of details with the aim of sending malicious emails and spam. The more I look at this one, the more I am convinced the entire set up has been done with the aim of distributing malware. The domain was registered on 15 January 2015. The computer sending IP 120.140.55.192 is listed as Malaysia...
19 January 2015: order-slip.rar : Extracts to: order-slip.exe
Current Virus total detections: 23/56* ... All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email... The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it..."
* https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...ced64c712ec25c68c3a61988/analysis/1421652817/
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Verizon vuln exposed email accounts - “zombie cookies”
- http://www.securityweek.com/verizon-fixes-vulnerability-exposing-user-email-accounts
Jan 19, 2015 - "... discovered the flaw while analyzing the Android app for Verizon’s fiber optic Internet, telephone and television service FiOS. While investigating the requests sent by the application, the expert noticed a username parameter called uid. By changing the value of this parameter with a different customer’s username, Westergren got the contents of the targeted user’s email account. The researcher* later determined that other API methods for this particular widget were affected as well. For example, by changing the values of the uid and mid parameters in a certain request, he could read individual emails. even managed to send out an email on another user’s behalf by exploiting the vulnerability... The proof-of-concept was sent to Verizon’s security team on January 14. The telecoms giant -confirmed- the existence of the issue by the next day. The vulnerability was fixed on January 16. For responsibly disclosing the security hole, Westergren was rewarded with free FiOS Internet for one year... had been using so-called “zombie cookies” to track subscribers even if they had used private browsing, cleared their cookies, or if they had opted out. The existence of Verizon’s controversial system came to light last year, but the company -denied- using the tracking method in its own business model. After being exposed... announced on Friday that it will suspend its “zombie cookies” program..."
* http://randywestergren.com/critical...-mobile-api-compromising-user-email-accounts/
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LockHeedMartin Fax Spam
- http://threattrack.tumblr.com/post/108560007998/lockheedmartin-fax-spam
Jan 19, 2015 - "Subjects Seen:
[Lockheed Martin UK Ltd Integrated Systems] New fax message - LFQ.71021C670.3249
Typical e-mail details:
FAX: +07755-090107
Date: 2015.01.18 17:33:18 CST
Pages: 4
Reference number: LFQ.71021C670.3249
Filename: curbed.zip
—
Lockheed Martin UK Ltd Integrated Systems Michaele Vivas

Malicious URLs:
breteau-photographe .com/tmp/pack.tar.gz
voigt-its .de/fit/pack.tar.gz
maisondessources .com/assets/pack.tar.gz
pleiade.asso .fr/piwigotest/pack.tar.gz
scolapedia .org/histoiredesarts/pack.tar.gz
Malicious File Name and MD5:
curbed .scr (BDFE7EB4A421B9A989C85BFFF7BACE2C)
1715030703 .exe (4ebd076047a04290f23f02d6ecd16fee)

Screenshot: https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/801...3da7ec037/tumblr_inline_nifqztQaEr1r6pupn.png

Tagged: LockHeedMartin, Citroni, dalexis
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Fake 'Natwest' SPAM - leads to malware
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-natwest.html
19 Jan 2015 - "This spam claiming to be from NatWest bank (or is it nEtwest?) leads to malware.
From: NatWest [donotreply@ netwest .uk]
Date: 19 January 2015 at 14:02
Subject: Important - Please complete attached form ...
Dear Customer
Please find below your Banking Form for Bankline.
<URL redacted>
Please complete Bankline Banking Form :
- Your Customer Id and User Id - which are available from your administrator if you have not already received them
Additionally, if you wish to access Bankline training, simply follow the link below
<URL redacted>
If you have any queries or concerns, please telephone your Electronic Banking Help Desk.
National Westminster Bank Plc, Registered in England No. 929027. Registered Office: 135 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3UR.
Authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority...

In this case the link in the email goes to www .ipawclp .com/NEW-IMPORTANT-NATWEST_FORM/new.bankline_document .html where it hits a couple of scripts at:
http ://restaurantratiobeach .ro/js/jquery-1.39.15.js
http ://utokatalin .ro/js/jquery-1.39.15.js
In turn, that leads to a ZIP file download which contains an EXE file which is slightly different each time it downloads, with low detection rates in all cases [1] [2] [3]. The name of the ZIP file and EXE varies, but is in the format doc12345.exe and doc54321.zip. Of note is a sort-of-informational screen on the download page:
> https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BbZFLI01zzE/VL0eAGDsU8I/AAAAAAAAGIQ/MlAa94-Kmlc/s1600/fake-natwest.png
Automated analysis is presently inconclusive...
UPDATE:
@snxperxero suggests blocking the following sites:
202.153.35.133
loveshopclothing .com
credit490 .com "
1] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...08b79137571175d1703b0d70/analysis/1421678510/

2] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...63810b5052e852ea46a99d57/analysis/1421678516/

3] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...8a9bac17c6b4ccec843658fb/analysis/1421678522/
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Fake 'Insurance Inspection' SPAM - doc malware
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-repairermessagesfmgcouk.html
19 Jan 2015 - "This spam does -not- come from FMG Support Group Ltd, but instead it is a forgery. FMG are -not- sending out the spam, nor have their systems been compromised in any way. Instead, this spam has a malicious Word document attached.
From: repairermessages@ fmg .co.uk
Date: 19 January 2015 at 07:24
Subject: Insurance Inspection Arranged AIG02377973
FMG is committed to reducing its impact on the environment. Please don't print this email unless absolutely necessary.
Have you been impressed by one of our people?
If so, we'd love to hear about it. You can nominate someone for a Spirit award by emailing spirit@ fmg .co.uk
FMG Support Group Ltd. Registered in England. No. 06489429.
Registered office: FMG House, St Andrews Road, Huddersfield, HD1 6NA.
Tel: 0844 243 8888 ...

Attached is a Word document AIG02377973-InsuranceInspectionArranged.doc which comes in at least -two- different versions, neither of which are detected by AV vendors [1] [2]. These documents contain -two- slightly different malicious macros... which attempt to download a further component from:
http ://chilan .ca/js/bin.exe
http ://techno-kar .ru/js/bin.exe
This is saved as %TEMP%\324234234.exe which has a VirusTotal detection rate of 2/57*. The Malwr report shows it attempting to communicate with the following IPs:
59.148.196.153 (HKBN, Hong Kong)
74.208.11.204 (1&1, US)
These two IP addresses have been used by this -malware- for a long time, I strongly recommend you block them. Also, a malicious DLL is dropped on the infected system with a detection rate of just 2/53**."
1] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...f88fb218dd15dc33069384bb/analysis/1421656771/

2] https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/...8f4bbc83c511bdbd4df81fab/analysis/1421657737/
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Fake '19TH JANUARY 2015.doc' SPAM - doc malware
- http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-traci-wilson.html
19 Jan 2015 - "This rather terse spam does -not- actually come from Davies Crane Hire, but it is a -forgery- with a malicious Word document attached. Davies Crane Hire have not been hacked or compromised, and they are -not- sending out this spam.
From: Traci Wilson [t.wilson@ daviescranehire .co.uk]
Date: 19 January 2015 at 09:05
Subject: 19TH JANUARY 2015.doc

There is -no- body text, just an attachment called 19TH JANUARY 2015.doc which contains a malicious macro.
The documents in use and the payload are identical to this spam run* that proceeded it. At the moment, everything has a very low detection rate. The payload is the Dridex banking trojan."
* http://blog.dynamoo.com/2015/01/malware-spam-repairermessagesfmgcouk.html

- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/traci...o-uk-19th-january-2015-xlsx-word-doc-malware/
19 Jan 2015
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Fake 'tax refund' Phish...
- http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/hm-revenue-customs-received-tax-refund-payment-phishing/
19 Jan 2015 - "'HM Revenue and Customs – You have received a tax refund payment !' is an email pretending to come from HM Revenue & Customs <tax@ hmrc .gov .uk> . One of the major common subjects in a phishing attempt is -Tax returns- where especially in the UK, you need to submit your Tax Return online before 31st December each year. This one wants your personal details and your credit card and bank details. Many of them are also designed to specifically steal your email, facebook and other social network log in details... If you follow the link you see a webpage looking like this where they want your email address and name:
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/spiderspun_HMRC_phish1.png
They then pretend to do a search based on your name and email. Then you get sent on to the nitty gritty where they want -all- your banking and credit information:
> http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/spiderspun_HMRC_phish2.png
... All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email..."

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