{"id":16551,"date":"2022-07-06T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/?page_id=16551"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:45:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T09:45:49","slug":"total-gas-power-documents-malspam-delivers-locky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/myonlinesecurity.co.uk\/total-gas-power-documents-malspam-delivers-locky\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Gas & Power Documents Malspam Delivers Locky"},"content":{"rendered":"
Continuing with the never ending series of malware downloaders is an email with the subject of Total Gas & Power documents 0\/5 ( random numbers) coming or pretending to come from totadonotreply@netsend.biz with a semi-random named zip attachment in the format of 3000566547_invoice_139920043-09.zip which delivers Locky ransomware. The dates on the emails are 12 days old, so picked up by spam filters quite quickly ( or should be )<\/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
Total Gas & Power has 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.<\/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>\n 13 December 2016 : 3000566547_invoice_139920043-09.zip: Extracts to: 3000566547_invoice_139920047-55.jse Current Virus total detections<\/a>: MALWR shows a download of an encrypted file from\u00a0 which is converted by the script to JWvpjx1.dll ( VirusTotal<\/a>) Payload Security<\/a><\/p>\n One of the emails looks like:<\/p>\n From:<\/strong> totadonotreply@netsend.biz<\/p>\n Date:<\/strong> Fri 02\/12\/2016 12:07<\/p>\n Subject:<\/strong> Total Gas & Power documents 0\/5<\/p>\n Attachment:<\/strong> 3000566547_invoice_139920043-09.zip<\/p>\n Body content:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear Customer,<\/em><\/p>\n Please find attached your latest document from Total Gas and Power.<\/em><\/p>\n Your account code is 3000566547<\/em><\/p>\n If you have any other queries please contact:<\/em><\/p>\n For accounts: call.centre@totalgp.com<\/em><\/p>\n For login help: totaloginhelp@netsend.biz<\/em><\/p>\n Regards,<\/em><\/p>\n Total Gas & Power<\/em><\/p>\n Screenshot:<\/strong><\/p>\n otal Gas & Power documents email delivering Locky ransomware<\/p>\n All these malicious emails are either designed to steal your Passwords, Bank, PayPal or other financial details along with your email or FTP ( web space) log in credentials. Or they are Ransomware versions that encrypt your files and demand large sums of money to recover the files.<\/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.<\/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 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 There are frequently dozens or even hundreds of different 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 do 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