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Wednesday 13 April 2016

Malware spam: "Prompt response required! Past due inv. #FPQ479660" / "Jake Gill"

This fake financial spam has a malicious attachment:

From:    Hillary Odonnell [Hillary.OdonnellF@eprose.fr]
Date:    13 April 2016 at 18:40
Subject:    Prompt response required! Past due inv. #FPQ479660

Hello,

I am showing that invoice FPQ479660 is past due. Can you tell me when this invoice is scheduled for payment?

Thank you,

Jake Gill

Accounts Receivable Department

Diploma plc

(094) 426 8112
The person it is "From", the reference nu,ber and the company name vary from spam to spam. All the samples I have seen have the name "Jake Gill" in the body text. Attached is a semi-random RTF document (for example, DOC02973338131560.rtf).

There seem to be several different versions of the attachment, I checked four samples [1] [2] [3] [4] and VirusTotal detection rates seem to be in the region of 7/57. The Malwr reports for those samples are inconclusive [5] [6] [7] [8] (as are the Hybrid Analyses [9] [10] [11] [12]) but do show a failed lookup attempt for the domain onlineaccess.bleutree.us (actually hosted on 212.76.140.230 - MnogoByte, Russia). The payload appears to be Dridex.

We can see a reference to that server at URLquery which shows an attempted malicious download. It also appears in this Hybrid Analysis report. At the moment however, the server appears to be not responding, but it appears that for that sample the malware communicated with:

195.169.147.88 (Culturegrid.nl, Netherlands)
178.33.167.120 (OVH, Spain)
210.70.242.41 (TANET, Taiwan)
210.245.92.63 (FPT Telecom Company, Vietnam)


These are all good IPs to block.

According to DNSDB, these other domains have all been hosted on the 212.76.140.230 address:

onlineaccess.bleutree.com
egotayx.net
wgytaab.net
emoaxmyx.net
wmbyaxma.net
emeotalyx.net
ezhoyznyx.net
wmeybtala.net
wzhybyzna.net
onlineaccess.bleutree.info
onlineaccess.bleutree.mobi


You can bet that they are all malicious too.

Recommended blocklist:
212.76.140.230
195.169.147.88
178.33.167.120
210.70.242.41
210.245.92.63


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