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Tuesday 14 January 2014

HSBC "Payment Advice" spam / Payment Advice.exe


This fake HSBC spam comes with a malicious attachment:

Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:57:29 -0300 [09:57:29 EST]
From:      HSBC Advising Service [advising.service.738805677.728003.693090157@mail.hsbcnet.hsbc.com]
Subject:      Payment Advice - Advice Ref:[G72282154558] / Priority payment / Customer Ref:[63 434S632U9I]


Sir/Madam

The attached payment advice is issued at the request of our customer. The advice is for your reference only.

Yours faithfully

Global Payments and Cash Management

HSBC

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The is an attachment Payment Advice [G72282154558].zip which contains an executable Payment Advice.exe with a VirusTotal detection rate of 12/48. Automated analysis by Comodo CAMAS shows an attempted connection to thebostonshaker.com on 206.190.147.139 (Salt Lake City Hosting, US). It is the only site on this IP address, blocking either temporarily may give some protection.

1 comment:

Chris said...

XXX has been added to disable accidental download.

Subject: Payment Advice - Advice Ref:[GB404247858069] / CHAPS credits / Customer Ref:[pay run 29/05/14]

Sir/Madam,

Please download document from dropbox, payment advice is issued at the request of our customer. The advice is for your reference only.

Download link:

http://www.pennec-conseils.com/css/XXX document-128_712.zip

Yours faithfully,
Global Payments and Cash Management
HSBC

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