{"id":11785,"date":"2022-04-12T05:57:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T05:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/?p=11785"},"modified":"2022-04-12T05:57:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T05:57:17","slug":"re-p-o-malspam-delivers-java-adwind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/re-po-malspam-delivers-java-adwind\/","title":{"rendered":"RE: P\/O Malspam Delivers Java Adwind"},"content":{"rendered":"
We continue to be plagued daily by fake financial themed emails containing java adwind<\/a> attachments. I have previously mentioned many of these HERE. We have been seeing these sort of emails almost every day and there was nothing much to update. Today\u2019s has a slightly different subject and email content to previous ones. This appears to be a new Java Adwind version in this email, see below for details<\/p>\n Make Note: Java Adwind<\/a> is a very dangerous remote access backdoor Trojan, that has cross OS capabilities and can potentially run and infect any computer or operating system including windows, Apple Mac, Android and Linux. It however can only be active or infect you if you have Sun \/ Oracle Java installed. Along with most security professionals, I strongly urge you to uninstall java and not use it, unless you have a pressing need for it. The majority of domestic ( home ) users and small businesses have no need for Java on their computers. This Article<\/a> from a couple of years ago explains why you should remove it. If you cannot remove it then it must be kept up to date<\/a> and be extremely careful with what you download or open.<\/p>\n They use email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment. A very high proportion are being targeted at small and medium size businesses, with the hope of getting a better response than they do from consumers.<\/p>\n None of the companies mentioned in the body of the email 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.<\/p>\n The email looks like:<\/p>\n From:<\/strong> Sales <order@ncima-holding.ci><\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> Tue 18\/10\/2021 18:28<\/p>\n Subject:<\/strong> RE: P\/O<\/p>\n Attachment:<\/strong> NEW P.O.zip<\/p>\n Attached is the Purchase order list<\/em><\/p>\n please confirm so we can proceed.<\/em><\/p>\n Thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/em><\/p>\n sent from my iPad<\/em><\/p>\n Received: from xvm-174-57.dc0.ghst.net ([95.142.174.57]:50920 helo=mailsgc.sogemcointer-ci.com)<\/em> Note: Only the final IP address outside of your network in the Received: fields can be trusted as others can be spoofed<\/strong><\/p>\n These malicious attachments have a password stealing component, with the aim of stealing your bank, PayPal or other financial details along with your email or FTP ( web space) log in credentials. Many of them are also designed to specifically steal your Facebook and other social network log in details.<\/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. 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 19 October 2021: New P.O.jar (273kb) Current Virus total detections<\/a>: Payload Security<\/a><\/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
Email Headers:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nby knight.knighthosting.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.87)<\/em>
\n(envelope-from <order@ncima-holding.ci>)<\/em>
\nid 1bwcl2-0007dR-6R<\/em>
\nfor guru@myonlinesecurity.co.uk; Tue, 18 Oct 2021 23:21:16 +0100<\/em>
\nReceived: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])<\/em>
\nby mailsgc.sogemcointer-ci.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B072ADB97;<\/em>
\nTue, 18 Oct 2021 23:19:32 +0200 (CEST)<\/em>
\nX-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sogemcointer-ci.com<\/em>
\nReceived: from mailsgc.sogemcointer-ci.com ([127.0.0.1])<\/em>
\nby localhost (mailsgc.sogemcointer-ci.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)<\/em>
\nwith ESMTP id b9CG3wDdgDlY; Tue, 18 Oct 2021 23:19:25 +0200 (CEST)<\/em>
\nReceived: from OLAMEDGE1.olamdomain.com (unknown [180.87.142.140])<\/em>
\nby mailsgc.sogemcointer-ci.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3A31423A915;<\/em>
\nTue, 18 Oct 2021 19:28:22 +0200 (CEST)<\/em>
\nContent-Type: multipart\/mixed; boundary=\u201d===============1233943256==\u201d<\/em>
\nMIME-Version: 1.0<\/em>
\nSubject: RE: P\/O<\/em>
\nTo: Recipients <order@ncima-holding.ci><\/em>
\nFrom: \u201cSales\u201d <order@ncima-holding.ci><\/em>
\nDate: Wed, 19 Oct 2021 01:28:19 +0800<\/em>
\nReply-To: order@ncima-holding.ci<\/em>
\nMessage-Id: <20211018172823.3A31423A915@mailsgc.sogemcointer-ci.com><\/em><\/p>\n