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Tuesday 18 September 2012

IRS spam / xlzones.com

More IRS themed spam, this time leading to malware on xlzones.com:

From: Internal Revenue Service [mailto:papillaq9@wonderware.com]
Sent: 18 September 2012 15:22
Subject: Your IRS federal tax payment has not been accepted
Importance: High


Your Federal Tax transaction (ID: 1550573369185), recently sent from your bank account was returned by The Electronic Federal Tax Payment System.
Not Accepted Tax transfer
Tax Transaction ID:     1550573369185
Reason ID    See details in the report below
Income Tax Transaction Report    tax_report_1550573369185.doc (Microsoft Word Document)

Internal Revenue Service P.O. Box 996 Davis 99627 NY 

The malicious payload can be found at [donotclick]xlzones.com/detects/char-storing-hate.php and [donotclick]xlzones.com/maintain/java.jar (report here) hosted on the familiar IP address of 203.91.113.6 (G Mobile, Mongolia). Block this IP if you can.. also beware of these other malicious domains on the same server:
centennialfield.net
blue-lotusgrove.net
virtual-geocaching.net
afgreenwich.net
cedarbuiltok.net
thebummwrap.net
bode-sales.net
cat-mails.net
xlzones.com

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