{"id":11151,"date":"2022-04-09T16:22:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/?p=11151"},"modified":"2023-03-31T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T11:27:28","slug":"cash-statement-of-account-10-03-2017-malspam-delivers-malware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/cash-statement-of-account-10032017-malspam-delivers-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash Statement Of Account 10\/03\/2017 Malspam Delivers Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"
The next in the never ending series of Malware downloaders is an email with the subject of Cash Statement of Account 10\/03\/2017 coming from Front Desk <reception@st-timsrc.org><\/p>\n
They use email addresses and subjects that will entice, persuade, scare or shock a recipient to read the email and open the attachment.<\/p>\n
One of the emails looks like:<\/p>\n
From:<\/strong> Front Desk <reception@st-timsrc.org><\/p>\n Date:<\/strong>Tue 03\/10\/2017 19:19<\/p>\n Subject:<\/strong> Cash Statement of Account 10\/03\/2017<\/p>\n Attachment:<\/strong> Cash_Statement.pdf<\/p>\n Dear karen,<\/em><\/p>\n Here is the travel expense sheet for your upcoming company field trip. Please write down the approximate costs in the attachment.<\/em><\/p>\n Warm wishes,<\/em><\/p>\n Hilario Walton<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The email has a pdf attachment with a link to which redirects to\u00a0where you seen a page like this asking you to install a plugin to view the page.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pressing install will download\u00a0( VirusTotal<\/a>) (Payload Security<\/a>)<\/p>\n We have had a series of these emails recently (28 September 2017) was DAY END CASH PAYMENT REPORT AS ON 28\/09\/2017 which delivered fxplugin_install.exe ( VirusTotal<\/a>) ( Payload Security<\/a>) which was netwire RAT<\/p>\n All the alleged senders, amounts, reference numbers, Bank codes, companies, names of employees, employee positions, email addresses and phone numbers mentioned in the emails are all random. Some of these companies will exist and some won\u2019t.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t try to respond by phone or email, all you will do is end up with an innocent person or company who have had their details spoofed and picked at random from a long list that the bad guys have previously found. The bad guys choose companies, Government departments and organisations with subjects that are designed to entice you or alarm you into blindly opening the attachment or clicking the link in the email to see what is happening.<\/p>\n Please read our How to protect yourselves page<\/a> for simple, sensible advice on how to avoid being infected by this sort of socially engineered malware.<\/p>\n Previous campaigns over the last few weeks have delivered numerous different download sites and malware versions. There are frequently 5 or 6 and even up to 150 download locations on some days, sometimes delivering the exactly same malware from all locations and sometimes slightly different malware versions. Locky does update at frequent intervals during the day, sometimes as quickly as every hour, so you might get a different version of these nasty Ransomware.<\/p>\n This is another one of the files that unless you have \u201cshow known file extensions enabled<\/a>\u201c, can easily be mistaken for a genuine DOC \/ PDF \/ JPG or other common file instead of the .EXE \/ .JS file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected.<\/p>\nBody Content:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Screenshot:<\/strong><\/h3>\n