{"id":11892,"date":"2022-03-24T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T10:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/?p=11892"},"modified":"2023-04-05T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T13:11:17","slug":"spoofed-john-miller-invoice-pretending-to-come-from-somebody-named-holmes-delivers-dridex-banking-trojan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/spoofed-john-miller-invoice-pretending-to-come-from-somebody-named-holmes-delivers-dridex-banking-trojan\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoofed John Miller Invoice Pretending To Come From Somebody Named Holmes Delivers Dridex Banking Trojan"},"content":{"rendered":"
Continuing with the latest series of emails with random numbered pdf attachments that drops a malicious macro enabled word doc is an email with the subject of Invoice pretending to come from a random first name Holmes at random email addresses but the body of the email imitates John Miller Ltd.<\/p>\n
The email address or website address in the body of the email matches the alleged (spoofed) senders email address<\/p>\n
They are using email addresses and subjects that will scare or 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
Remember many email clients, especially on a mobile phone or tablet, only show the Name in the From: and not the bit in <domain.com >. That is why these scams and phishes work so well.<\/p>\n
If you set your PDF reader to safe settings as shown in THIS post, then these cannot harm you or deliver the initial macro enabled word doc that downloads the malware<\/p>\n
JohnMiller Ltd 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. None of the alleged sending email addresses are sending the email to you either. They are simply spoofed. These come via the Necurs Botnet.<\/p>\n
The email looks like:<\/p>\n
From:<\/strong> Ophelia Holmes <Opheliah@culverhay.bathnes.sch.uk><\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> Mon 05\/06\/2021 10:19<\/p>\n Subject:<\/strong> Invoice<\/p>\n Attachment:<\/strong> A4 Inv_Crd 21297.pdf<\/p>\n Body content:<\/strong><\/p>\n Regards<\/em><\/p>\n Ophelia Holmes<\/em><\/p>\n Kirkburn Ind. Estate<\/em><\/p>\n Lockerbie<\/em><\/p>\n Dumfries and Galloway<\/em><\/p>\n DG11 2FF<\/em><\/p>\n Tel \u2013 01576 208 741 (Accounts) 01576 208 747 (Main line)<\/em><\/p>\n Fax \u2013 01576 208 748<\/em><\/p>\n Ext \u2013 1008\/1006<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018\u2019New Website launched 30.05.2014 \u2013 visit www.culverhay.bathnes.sch.uk\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n Screenshot:<\/strong><\/p>\n These are getting a little bit more believable with the PDF actually having some content that makes it almost look real<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A4 Inv_Crd 21297.pdf Current Virus total detections: Payload Security drops Invoice_129302.docm ( VirusTotal) ( Payload Security ) downloads an encrypted txt file from http:\/\/spaceonline.in\\8yfh4gfff which is converted by the script to miniramon8.exe ( VirusTotal)<\/p>\n There are 4 hardcoded ( slightly obfuscated) download sites in each macro ( This is the list of sites so far discovered today)<\/p>\n spaceonline.in\\8yfh4gfff All the alleged senders, companies, names of employees, phone numbers, amounts, reference numbers etc. mentioned in the emails are all innocent and are just picked at 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 other 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 This email attachment contains what appears to be a genuine word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet with either a macro script or an embedded OLE object that when run will infect you.<\/p>\n Modern versions of Microsoft office, that is Office 2010, 2013, 2016 and Office 365 should be automatically set to higher security to protect you.<\/p>\n By default protected view is enabled and macros are disabled, UNLESS you or your company have enabled them. If protected view mode is turned off and macros are enabled then opening this malicious word document will infect you, and simply previewing it in windows explorer or your email client might well be enough to infect you. Definitely DO NOT follow the advice they give to enable macros or enable editing to see the content.<\/p>\n Most of these malicious word documents either appear to be totally blank or look something like these images when opened in protected view mode, which should be the default in Office 2010, 2013, 2016 and 365. Some versions pretend to have a digital RSA key and say you need to enable editing and Macros to see the content. Do NOT enable Macros or editing under any circumstances.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What can be infected by this<\/strong><\/p>\n At this time, these malicious macros only infect windows computers. They do not affect a Mac, IPhone, IPad, Blackberry, Windows phone or Android phone.<\/p>\n 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 do not run in \u201cOffice Online\u201d Open Office, Libre Office, Word Perfect or any other office program that can read Word or Excel files.<\/p>\n
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