{"id":12314,"date":"2022-03-25T04:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T04:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/?p=12314"},"modified":"2023-03-31T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T09:14:09","slug":"bank-account-frozen-notice-note-attention-fake-word-doc-malware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/bank-account-frozen-notice-note-attention-fake-word-doc-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Account Frozen Notice, Note, Attention \u2013 Fake Word Doc Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bank account frozen notice, note, attention. Attention #CITI-44175PI-77527 with a cab 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.<\/p>\n
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
Almost all of these also 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, companies, names of employees and phone numbers 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.<\/p>\n
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
There are loads of different subjects with this one today, including Attention, notice, note with random characters after the word. The characters in the subject match the attachment name which also matches the charcters in the email boody. They are using .cab files today which are a compressed(zip ) file that is Microsoft specific and usually are used for windows updates etc. All Microsoft windows versions will natively extract cab files without any additional software.<\/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 The email looks like:<\/p>\n ===========================================<\/p>\n This is an automatically generated email. Please do not reply as the email address is not monitored for received mail.<\/p>\n ===========================================<\/p>\n Notification Number: 8489465<\/p>\n Mandate Number: 6782144<\/p>\n Date: December 16, 2021. 01:13pm<\/p>\n In an effort to protect your Banking account, we have frozen your account until such time that it can be safely restored by you. Please view attached file \u201cCITI-44175PI-77527.cab\u201d for details.<\/p>\n Yours truly,<\/p>\n Kathy Schuler<\/p>\n +07458 411127<\/p>\n \u2014<\/p>\n Questa e-mail \u00e8 priva di virus e malware perch\u00e9 \u00e8 attiva la protezione avast! Antivirus.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.avast.com<\/p>\n 16 December 2021: CITI-44175PI-77527.cab : Extracts to: CITI-44175PI-77527.scr Current Virus total detections: 3\/54<\/p>\n This is another one of the spoofed icon files that unless you have \u201cshow known file extensions enabled<\/a>\u201c, will look like a proper word.doc file instead of the .exe file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected.<\/p>\n