This example is an email containing the subject of “FW: Recent BACs ” pretending to come from Danske Bank but actually coming from a look-a-like or typo-squatted domain “[email protected]” with a malicious word doc attachment is today’s latest spoof of a well-known company, bank or public authority delivering Trickbot banking Trojan

Note: one of the compromised delivery sites http://myparamountcare.com was also used in Yesterday’s trickbot campaign. This is not good for a health care company who don’t seem able to keep their website protected. The other download site today is what should be a lawyers office http://jbarbourlaw.com but it just has a holding page saying ” My site is launching soon. ” although the domain has been registered since 2014

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Email Details

From: Danske Bank <[email protected]>

Date: Thu 12/07/2021 12:13

Subject: FW: Recent BACs

Attachment: DNSKE21393.doc

Body content:

This email was sent to: [email protected]

BACs Documents

Reference: DNSKE21393
Case number: 379122

We’ve encountered an error while processing your recent BACs transaction. Your transaction has not been completed. Please check attached documents and verify your transaction details.

Please fax completed documents to +44 (0) 845 882 6122

Sincerely,

Jacob Schiander
Danske Bank
Accounting Controller

This e-mail including any attachments is private and confidential and may contain privileged material. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete it (including any attachments) immediately. You must not copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it or any attachments. Telephone calls may be monitored or recorded.

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Lloyds Bank has not been hacked or had their email or other servers compromised. They are not sending the emails to you. They are just innocent victims in exactly the same way as every recipient of these emails.

What has happened is that the criminals sending these have registered various domains that look like genuine Company, Bank, Government or message sending services. Normally there is only newly registered domain that imitate Companies House, HMRC, another Government department, a Bank, file hosting service or a message sending service that can easily be confused with the genuine organisation in some way, that are hosted on & sending emails from 4 different servers.. Some days however we do see dozens or even hundreds of fake domains.

Today’s example of the spoofed domain is, as usual, registered via Godaddy as registrar. Because of new GDPR rules we cannot easily find the registrants name or any further details.

danskebankco.uk hosted on & sending emails via 191.101.26.88 | 91.218.126.2 | 185.117.74.59 | 95.211.155.249 |

Malware Details

Fake Danske Bank Word Doc

DNSKE21393.doc Current Virus total detections | Anyrun |

This malware doc file downloads from which is a renamed .exe file ( VirusTotal)

The alternate Download location is

All modern versions of word and other office programs, that is 2010, 2013, 2016 and 365, should open all Microsoft office documents that is Word docs, Excel spreadsheet files and PowerPoint etc that are downloaded from the web or received in an email automatically in “protected view” that stops any embedded malware, macros and DDE “exploit /Feature” and embedded ole objects from being displayed and running.

Make sure protected view is set in all office programs to protect you and your company from these sorts of attacks and do not over ride it to edit the document. If the protected mode bar appears when opening the document DO NOT follow the advice they give to enable macros or enable editing to see the content. The document will have a warning message, but you will be safe.

Be aware that there are a lot of other dodgy word docs spreading that WILL infect you with no action from you, if you are still using an out dated or vulnerable version of word. This is a good reason to update your office programs to a recent version and stop using office 2003 and 2007.

Many of us have continued to use older versions of word and other office programs, because they are convenient, have the functions and settings we are used to and have never seen a need to update to the latest super-duper version.

The risks in using older version are now seriously outweighing the convenience, benefits and cost of keeping an old version going.

What Can Be Infected By This

At this time, these malicious macros only infect windows computers. They do not affect a Mac, IPhone, IPad, Blackberry, Windows phone or Android phone.

The malicious word or excel file can open on any device with an office program installed, and potentially the macro will run on Windows or Mac or any other device with Microsoft Office installed. BUT the downloaded malware that the macro tries to download is windows specific, so will not harm, install or infect any other computer except a windows computer.

You will not be infected if you do not have macros enabled in Excel or Word. These Macros, embedded Oles or DDE do not run in “Office Online” Open Office, Libre Office, Word Perfect or any other office program that can read Word or Excel files.

Please read our How to protect yourselves page for simple, sensible advice on how to avoid being infected by this sort of socially engineered malware. Also please read our post about word macro malware and how to avoid being infected by them

I strongly urge you to update your office software to the latest version and stop putting yourself at risk, using old out of date software.

IOC:

DNSKE21393.doc
MD5: 1c9f56281f296faddf05efdf34423078
SHA-1: 12415cf830b1582a7a8a8bb0f0b9318c4270531c
Download URLs
http://myparamountcare.com/55.66 69.162.134.17
http://jbarbourlaw.com/55.66 192.186.228.195

MD5: 6124c863c08f92732da180d4cf7cbf38
SHA1: d4fe6ff566b4dd76b7de5489179272074387b172

Email from: <[email protected]>
danskebankco.uk
191.101.26.88
91.218.126.2
185.117.74.59
95.211.155.249