The next in today\u2019s malware laden emails is\u00a0an email with the subject of\u00a0\u00a0 Your order Canceled. fraud pretending to come from\u00a0Security Service <security-service@mail.com> \u00a0 with a zip attachment\u00a0 containing a .exe file. The bad spelling should be enough to alert recipients. Why don\u2019t these malware bots use spell check?<\/p>\n
This looks like a new version of Sage with updated decryption and what to do instructions. Definitely looks quite a change in behaviour. Drops a vbs file that gives audio alerts telling you that your files are encrypted.<\/p>\n
\u201cAttention! Attention! This is not a test!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAll you documents, data bases and other important files were encrypted and Windows can not restore them without special software.User action is required as soon as possible to recover the file\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n It also changes Bcdedit to prevent system recovery and of course deletes all shadow copies. Looks quite aggressive. I am sure full write-ups will soon appear from sites specialising in these ransomwares.<\/p>\n They\u00a0use email addresses and subjects that will entice or scare a user to read the email and open the attachment.<\/p>\n 7 February 2017: \u00a0Your.orderCanceled.fraud.zip\u00a0\u00a0 : Extracts to:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Your.order10988322.Canceled. fraud.2017-01-15.exe\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Current Virus total detections<\/a>:\u00a0 Payload Security<\/a><\/p>\n One of the \u00a0emails looks like:<\/p>\n From<\/strong>: Security Service <security-service@mail.com><\/p>\n Date<\/strong>: Tue 07\/02\/2017 18:19<\/p>\n Subject<\/strong>: Your order Canceled. fraud<\/p>\n Attachment<\/strong>:\u00a0 Your.orderCanceled.fraud.zip<\/p>\n Body content<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Your order has been canceled.<\/em><\/p>\n Your credit card is invalid.<\/em><\/p>\n For an explanation of the reason you have 3 days.<\/em><\/p>\n By discharging is distributed 3 days, your card will be blocked.<\/em><\/p>\n All the details in the attached documents.<\/em><\/p>\n security Service<\/em><\/p>\n Screenshot<\/strong>: none<\/p>\n These\u00a0malicious attachments normally have a password stealing component, with the aim of stealing your\u00a0bank, PayPal or other financial details along with your\u00a0email 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. A very high proportion are Ransomware versions that encrypt your files and demand money ( about \u00a3350\/$400) to recover the files.<\/p>\n All the alleged senders, amounts, reference numbers, Bank codes, companies, names of employees, employee positions, email addresses\u00a0and phone numbers mentioned in the emails are all random. Some of these companies will exist and some won\u2019t.\u00a0\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. The bad guys choose companies, Government departments and organisations \u00a0with 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 Previous campaigns over the last few weeks have delivered\u00a0numerous\u00a0different download sites and malware versions. There are\u00a0frequently 5 or 6 and even up to 150 \u00a0download locations on some days,\u00a0sometimes\u00a0delivering\u00a0the exactly same malware from all locations and sometimes slightly different\u00a0malware versions. Dridex \/Locky\u00a0does 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\u00a0\u00a0Banking password stealer Trojans.<\/p>\n This is another one of the\u00a0 files that unless you have \u201cshow known file extensions enabled<\/a>\u201c,\u00a0can easily be mistaken for \u00a0a genuine \u00a0DOC \/ PDF \/ JPG\u00a0or other common file instead of the .EXE \/ .JS\u00a0file it really is, so making it much more likely for you to accidentally open it and be infected.<\/p>\n