{"id":13278,"date":"2022-04-11T08:57:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T08:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/?p=13278"},"modified":"2023-04-03T14:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T14:04:05","slug":"hsbc-payment-advice-issued-fake-pdf-malware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/hsbc-payment-advice-issued-fake-pdf-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC Payment Advice Issued \u2013 Fake PDF Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"
HSBC Payment Advice Issued pretending to come from HSBC Bank UK <payment.advice@hsbc.co.uk> is another one from the current bot runs which try to download 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 or follow the link in the email. 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. 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 The email looks like:<\/p>\n Your payment advice is issued at the request of our customer. The advice is for your reference only.<\/p>\n Please download your payment advice at http:\/\/burracosoftware.it\/qoogcpixor\/hykrabwibn.html<\/p>\n Yours faithfully,<\/p>\n Global Payments and Cash Management<\/p>\n *******************************************************************************<\/p>\n This is an auto-generated email, please DO NOT REPLY. Any replies to this email will be disregarded.<\/p>\n This drops the same malware as today\u2019s version of https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/online-gateway-gov-uk-submission-fake-pdf-malware\/<\/p>\n A second version of this drops a slightly different malware paymentadvice.exe with a current VT detections 0\/53<\/p>\n