{"id":16491,"date":"2022-07-06T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/?page_id=16491"},"modified":"2023-04-05T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T12:30:17","slug":"spoofed-dhl-shipment-notification-delivers-cerber-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/spoofed-dhl-shipment-notification-delivers-cerber-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoofed Dhl Shipment Notification Delivers Cerber Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing with the never ending series of malware downloaders is an email with the subject of DHL Shipment Notification : 6349701436 pretending to come from DHL Customer Support <support@dhl.com> delivers Cerber ransomware.<\/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

DHL has not been hacked or compromised. They are not sending these emails to you.<\/p>\n

This is another one of the files that unless you have \u201cshow known file extensions enabled<\/u><\/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>\n

9 January 2017:\u00a0 P_rek.zip: Extracts to:\u00a0Pickup \u2013 DOMESTIC EXPRESS-Date,23 Jan 17.pdf.js \u00a0Current Virus total detections<\/u><\/a>:\u00a0\u00a0Payload Security<\/a>\u00a0<\/u> shows a download\u00a0 from (\u00a0VirusTotal<\/a><\/u>)\u00a0 which from the network noise looks like Cerber ransomware, although neither Payload Security nor any Antivirus on Virus total detect it as Cerber<\/p>\n

One of the emails looks like:<\/p>\n

From<\/strong>: DHL Customer Support <support@dhl.com><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>: Tue 24\/01\/2017 03:53<\/p>\n

Subject<\/strong>: DHL Shipment Notification : 6349701436<\/p>\n

Attachment<\/strong>: -EXPRESS -Date20170120.zip<\/p>\n

There are several different named attachments with this campaign. _Dhl_expr. DATE20170120.zip \u00a0\u00a0-EXPRESS -Date20170120.zip and probably other variants. All extract to the same named .js file Pickup \u2013 DOMESTIC EXPRESS-Date,23 Jan 17.pdf.js<\/p>\n

Body content<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Notification for shipment event group \u201cDelivered \u201d for 23 Jan 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
AWB Number: 6349701436 Pickup Date: 2017-01-23 08:65:00 Service: N Pieces: 1 Cust. Ref: C Description: DOMESTIC EXPRESS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ship From:<\/td>\nShip To:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SVN S.p.a NA *<\/td>\n\u2013 39648 NA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

EVENT CATEGORY\u00a023 Jan 17 09:34 AM \u2013 Shipment delivered \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Signed By \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0B N<\/p>\n

Shipment status may also be obtained from our Internet site in USA under or Globally under DHL<\/a><\/p>\n

Please do not reply to this email. This is an automated application used only for sending proactive notifications<\/p>\n

You are receiving this email because a notification is configured to receive notifications from Proview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Screenshot<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

All these malicious\u00a0emails\u00a0are either designed to steal your Passwords, Bank, PayPal or other financial details along with your email or FTP ( web space) log in credentials.\u00a0\u00a0Or they are\u00a0Ransomware versions that encrypt your files and demand large sums of money\u00a0 to recover the files.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 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. \u00a0Don\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.<\/span><\/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

Please read our\u00a0How to protect yourselves page<\/a>\u00a0<\/u>for simple, sensible advice on how to avoid being infected by this sort of\u00a0socially engineered\u00a0malware.<\/p>\n

There are frequently\u00a0dozens or even hundreds of\u00a0different download locations, sometimes delivering the exactly same malware from all locations and sometimes slightly different malware versions from each one. Dridex, Locky and many other malwares\u00a0do update at frequent intervals during the day, sometimes as quickly as every hour, so you might get a different version of these nasty Ransomware or Banking password stealer Trojans to the version we list here.<\/p>\n

Be very careful with email attachments. All of these emails use\u00a0Social engineering<\/a>\u00a0<\/u>tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email. Whether it is a message saying \u201clook at this picture of me I took last night\u201d and it appears to come from a friend or is more targeted at somebody who regularly is likely to receive PDF attachments or Word .doc attachments or any other common file that you use every day.<\/p>\n

The basic rule is\u00a0NEVER\u00a0<\/strong>open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it. Now that is very easy to say but quite hard to put into practice, because we all get emails with files attached to them. Our friends and family love to send us pictures of them doing silly things, or even cute pictures of the children or pets.<\/p>\n

Never just blindly click on the file in your email program. Always save the file to your downloads folder, so you can check it first. Many malicious files that are attached to emails will have a faked extension. That is the 3 letters at the end of the file name. Unfortunately windows by default hides the file extensions so you need to\u00a0Set your folder options<\/strong>\u00a0to \u201cshow known file types<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then when you unzip the zip file that is supposed to contain the pictures of \u201cSally\u2019s dog catching a ball\u201d or a report in word document format that work has supposedly sent you to finish working on at the weekend, or an invoice or order confirmation from some company, you can easily see if it is a picture or document & not a malicious program.<\/p>\n

If you see\u00a0.JS\u00a0or\u00a0.EXE or .COM or .PIF or .SCR or .HTA .vbs, .wsf , .jse .jar\u00a0at the end of the file name\u00a0DO NOT<\/strong>\u00a0click on it or try to open it, it will infect you.<\/p>\n

While the malicious program is inside the zip file, it cannot harm you or automatically run. When it is just sitting unzipped in your downloads folder it won\u2019t infect you, provided you don\u2019t click it to run it. Just delete the zip and any extracted file and everything will be OK.<\/em>\u00a0You can always run a scan with your antivirus to be sure.There are some zip files that can be configured by the bad guys to automatically run the malware file when you double click the zip to extract the file.<\/p>\n

If you right click any suspicious zip file received, and select\u00a0extract here or extract to folder\u00a0( after saving the zip to a folder on the computer) that risk is virtually eliminated. Never attempt to open a zip directly from your email, that is a guaranteed way to get infected. The best way is to just delete the unexpected zip and not risk any infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing with the never ending series of malware downloaders is an email with the subject of DHL Shipment Notification : 6349701436 pretending to come from DHL Customer Support <support@dhl.com> delivers Cerber ransomware. They use email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment. A very high proportion…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":209,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Fake-CDC-Flu-Pandemic-Warning-delivers-Gandcrab-5.2-ransomware.png",500,352,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"myonlinesecurity","author_link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/author\/myonlinesecurity\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28916,"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16491\/revisions\/28916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}