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Wednesday 16 December 2015

Malware spam: "Your account has a debt and is past due" leads to Teslacrypt

This fake financial spam comes with an interesting error in the part that is meant to randomly-generate the dollar amount:
From:    Frances Figueroa
Date:    16 December 2015 at 17:22
Subject:    Your account has a debt and is past due

Dear Customer,

Our records show that your account has a debt of $345.{rand(10,99)}}. Previous attempts of collecting this sum have failed.

Down below you can find an attached file with the information on your case.
The value, sender's name and attachment name are randomly generated. The attachment is named in the format SCAN_INVOICE_79608749.zip which contains a malicious script that attempts to download Teslacrypt ransomware from the following locations:

whatdidyaysay.com/80.exe?1
iamthewinnerhere.com/80.exe?1


This has a VirusTotal detection rate of 3/54 and an MD5 of 5c2a687f9235dd536834632c8185b32e. Those download locations have been registered specifically for this purpose (they are not hacked sites) and are hosted on:

176.99.12.87 (Global Telecommunications Ltd., Russia)
185.69.152.145 (Hosting Ukraine Ltd, Ukraine)
5.178.71.10 (Serverius, Netherlands)


The following malicious sites are also hosted on those IPs:

dns1.ojwekhsdfs.in
dns2.ojwekhsdfs.in
whatdidyaysay.com
washawaydesctrucion.com
dns1.mikymaus.in
dns2.mikymaus.in
dns1.saymylandgoodbye.in
dns2.saymylandgoodbye.in
dns2.auth-mail.ru
gammus.com
ifyougowegotoo.com
iamthewinnerhere.com
thewelltakeberlin.com
remarkablyxj.top
sufficientbe.top
domainsgmwills.top
ns2.directly-truimph.com

These automated reports [1] [2] [3] show that the malware calls home to these following legitimate but hacked domains:

sofiehughesphotography.com
goedkoop-weekendjeweg.net
coatesarchitecture.com
hotbizlist.com
adamhughes.in
magaz.mdoy.pro

Recommended minimum blocklist:
176.99.12.87
185.69.152.145
5.178.71.10

whatdidyaysay.com
iamthewinnerhere.com

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