Malware spam: "DoT Payment Receipt" / "donotreply@transport.gov.uk"

This fake financial spam has a malicious attachment:

From: donotreply@transport.gov.uk [mailto:donotreply@transport.gov.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 12:10 PM
To: redacted
Subject: DoT Payment Receipt

[Automated message. Do not reply]

Thank you for your payment.  It is important that you print this receipt and record the receipt number as proof of your payment. You may be asked to provide your receipt details should you have an enquiry regarding this payment.

DISCLAIMER

This email and any attachments are confidential and may contain legally privileged and/or copyright material.  You should not read, copy, use or disclose any of the information contained in this email without authorisation.  If you have received it in error please contact us at once by return email and then delete both emails.  There is no warranty that this email is error or virus free.

I haven't seen this myself, but some contacts (thank you!) have. Attached is a file PaymentReceipt.xls which comes in several different versions, the sample I saw contained this malicious macro and had a VirusTotal detection rate of 5/54. According to my sources, the different versions download a malicious binary from one of the following:

gospi.eu/~gospi/45yfqfwg/6ugesgsg.exe
piotrektest.cba.pl/45yfqfwg/6ugesgsg.exe
wmdrewniana8.cba.pl/45yfqfwg/6ugesgsg.exe
www.kolumbus.fi/~kf0963/45yfqfwg/6ugesgsg.exe

This binary has a detection rate of 3/53 and that VirusTotal report and this Malwr report indicates malicious traffic to:

182.93.220.146 (Ministry Of Education, Thailand)
78.47.66.169 (Hetzner, Germany)
89.108.71.148 (Agava, Ltd)
221.132.35.56 (Post And Telecom Company, Vietnam)

The payload is the Dridex banking trojan.

MD5s:

e25a05d3fecceb14667048c07494d65f 
32f3495cb945448a9868c5fe653b8d7e
a5dd075bd48d16a3ad13c06651b0af10
ef3805be4797271a2a9c8552f77866c1
f2b78be5e8b52976f69b076338757146

Recommended blocklist:
cba.pl
182.93.220.146
78.47.66.169
89.108.71.148
221.132.35.56

Malware spam: "FYI: INTERAC e-Transfer to Guillaume Davis accepted" / "Bank of Montreal [notify@payments.interac.ca]"

This fake financial spam leads to malware:

From:    Bank of Montreal [notify@payments.interac.ca]
Date:    30 September 2015 at 13:34
Subject:    FYI: INTERAC e-Transfer to Guillaume Davis accepted

Dear Customer

The INTERAC e-Transfer for $2997.60 (CAD) you sent to Guillaume Davis was accepted. The transfer is now complete.

Recipient's message:  A message was not provided

Thank you for using Bank of Montreal INTERAC e-Transfer Service.

Please follow the link below to download the transaction details:

https://storage-usw-11.sharefile.com/download.ashx?dt=dt7c26b2a7994b4070a947e9cd285718bb&h=u4fdqSy4IS59j0nzAr6RzZtYbrne3JpDFwd4YfEKKM0%3d

The link in the email downloads a file INTERAC e-Transfer transaction details.doc which has a VirusTotal detection rate of just 1/53. Analysis of the malicious code within the downloaded document is pending, however the use of sharefile.com is consistent with the delivery of the Dyre banking trojan.

Malware spam: "Invoice" / "Debbie Haydon [debbie@mvmilk.co.uk]"

This fake financial spam does not come from MV Milk but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment:

From     Debbie Haydon [debbie@mvmilk.co.uk]
Date     Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:04:10 +0700
Subject     Invoice

Thank you for your order.  Your Invoice - V414980 - is attached.

As agreed this invoice will NOT be sent via post.

If you have any questions regarding the attached invoice please telephone our office
on 01708 688422.

kind regards

Attached is a malicious Excel file named V414980.XLS, which is the same payload as found in this spam run also happening today.

Malware spam: "Remittance Advice" / "AccountsPayable@Norfolk.gov.uk"

This fake financial spam does not come from Norfolk County Council but is instead a simple forgery with a a malicious attachment:

From     AccountsPayable@Norfolk.gov.uk
Date     Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:09:46 +0430
Subject     Remittance Advice

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please find attached your remittance advice.

Regards,
NCC

--
To see our email disclaimer click here http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/emaildisclaimer

Attached is a file 6134443_101115_141851.xls which apparently comes in two or three versions, although I have only seen one with a VirusTotal detection rate of 3/54 and containing this malicious macro.

These documents then download a malicious binary from:

aniretak.wz.cz/5t546523/lhf3f334f.exe
sanoko.jp/5t546523/lhf3f334f.exe
 www.delianfoods.com/5t546523/lhf3f334f.exe

This binary has a VirusTotal detection rate of 3/54, and that report plus this Hybrid Analysis report show malicious traffic to:

95.154.203.249 (Iomart Hosting / Rapidswitch, UK)
182.93.220.146 (Ministry of Education, Thailand)

The payload is the Dridex banking trojan.

Recommended blocklist:
95.154.203.249
182.93.220.146

MD5s:
289af95f99f58c751a7d1d0a26d7cdb3
becb1cdbd1c1aea53260c2ed96eb6ee2
d020bfed9f93636114b9736100a9b59f
5173aaa2f5aa40df7ffa772eeaa0d1f7

Malware spam: "Refund from Bowater Incorporated" / PayPal

This fake PayPal email leads to malware:

From:    service@paypal.co.uk
Date:    11 November 2015 at 16:27
Subject:    Refund from Bowater Incorporated

	Bowater Incorporated has just sent you a refund Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:27:26 +0100 Transaction ID: 47E30904DC4145388 Dear Customer, Bowater Incorporated has just sent you a full refund of £7849.90 GBP for your purchase. If you have any questions about this refund, please contact Bowater Incorporated The refund will go to your PayPal account. It may take a few moments for this transaction to appear in your account. To see all the transaction details, please download and view from the link below. https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=view-a-trans&id=47E30904DC4145388 Merchant information Bowater Incorporated Note from merchant None provided Original transaction details Description Unit price Qty Amount Purchase from Bowater Incorporated £7849.90 GBP 1 £7849.90 GBP Insurance: ---- Total: £7849.90 GBP Refund to PayPal Balance: £7849.90 GBP Invoice Number: 59266315 Yours sincerely, PayPal

Help | Security Please do not reply to this email because we are not monitoring this inbox. To get in touch with us, log in to your account and click "Contact Us" at the bottom of any page. Copyright Š 1999-2015 PayPal. All rights reserved. PayPal (Europe) S.a.r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. Societe en Commandite par Actions Registered office: 64-75 Boulevard Royal, L-3369 Luxemburg RCS Luxemburg B 205 162 PayPal Email ID PP1479 - nsjwiqin1ob5c

The link in the email goes to a download location at sharefile.com which leads to a file transaction details.zip containing a malicious executable transaction details.scr.

This binary has a VirusTotal detection rate of just 1/55. The Hybrid Analysis report shows network traffic consistent with Upatre download the Dyre banking trojan. One key IP address in 197.149.90.166 (Cobranet, Nigeria) which is well worth blocking.

MD5:
28989811c6b498910637847d538e43bf

Malware spam: "Invoice SI823610 from OfficeFurnitureOnline.co.uk Order Ref 4016584" / "accounts@equip4work.co.uk"

This fake invoice does not come from OfficeFurnitureOnline.co.uk but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.

From     accounts [accounts@equip4work.co.uk]
Date     Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:54:33 +0400
Subject     Invoice SI823610 from OfficeFurnitureOnline.co.uk Order Ref 4016584

Please find attached a sales invoice from OfficeFurnitureOnline.co.uk.

This email address is only for account enquiries, please check your confirmation
for any information regarding the order details or delivery lead times.

Thank you for your order.

Attached is a file SI823610.XLS which I have seen only one version of in several samples of the email. Usually there are different variants. In this case, the spreadsheet contains this malicious macro [pastebin] and has a VirusTotal score of 4/54. According to this Hybrid Analysis report it then downloads a malicious binary from:

kdojinyhb.wz.cz/87yte55/6t45eyv.exe

In turn, this binary has a detection rate of zero. Those two reports plus this Malwr report show between them malicious traffic to the following IPs:

95.154.203.249 (Iomart / Rapidswitch, UK)
182.93.220.146 (Ministry Of Education, Thailand)
89.32.145.12 (Elvsoft SRL / Coreix , Romania / UK)

The payload is the Dridex banking trojan.

Recommended blocklist:
95.154.203.249
182.93.220.146
89.32.145.12
wz.cz

MD5s:
37ceca4ac82d0ade9bac811217590ecd
01638daf6dfb757f9a27b3e8124b3324

Malware spam: "Itinerary #C003NS39" / "no-reply@clicktravel.com "

This rather terse fake business spam does not come from Click Travel but is instead a simple forgery with a malcious attachment:

From: no-reply@clicktravel.com [mailto:no-reply@clicktravel.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 11:21 AM
Subject: Itinerary #C003NS39

Please see document attached

Attached is a file Hotel-Fax-V0045G2B_8308427510989318361.xls which contains this malicious macro [pastebin] which (according to this Hybrid Analysis report) downloads a component from:

www.clemenciaortiz.com/87yte55/6t45eyv.exe

So far I have only seen one sample of this, there are likely to be others with different download locations but the same binary. This executable file has a detection rate of 2/55 and that VirusTotal report and this Malwr report indicate traffic to the following IP:

89.108.71.148 (Agava Ltd, Russia)

I strongly recommend blocking traffic to that IP address. The payload is the Dridex banking trojan.

MD5s:
2845499946fd5882f94cc9a4375b364a
2acc52daffb0c66998a84f5a3c57f193

Malware spam: "OUTSTANDING INVOICES" / "Steve McDonnell" [stevem@resimac.co.uk]

This fake financial email does not come from Resimac but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.

From     "Steve McDonnell" [stevem@resimac.co.uk]
Date     Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:24:23 +0530
Subject     OUTSTANDING INVOICES

Dear,

Please find attached invoices 1396 & 1406 which are now outstanding.

I should be grateful if you would let me know when they are going to be paid.

Kind Regards
Steve McDonnell
Company Secretary

Resimac Ltd
Unit 11, Poplars Industrial Estate
Wetherby Road, Boroughbridge
North Yorkshire, YO51 9HS
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1423 325073
Web: www.resimacsolutions.com

We are members of...

MIB Vertical logo stacked - Bottom - North East
NOF Logo

I have only seen a single sample of this with an attachment named Invoices001396,1406-11.2015.xls which has a VirusTotal detection rate of 3/54  and which contains this malicious macro [pastebin] which (according to this Hybrid Analysis report) in this case downloads a binary (very slowly!) from:

www.davidcaballero.com/87yte55/6t45eyv.exe

The VirusTotal detection rate for this binary is 3/55. That report indicates network traffic to:

89.108.71.148 (Agava Ltd, Russia)

Other analyses are pending, however I strongly recommend that you block traffic to that IP. The paylaod is likely to be the Dridex banking trojan.

MD5s:
b227c91fbc1ba56e9f01ab4f1e2e502f
25e28f3ffc62bb55131b312d99c8f33b

UPDATE:
This Malwr report also shows traffic to the same IP address.

Malware spam: Random Name shared "Amendment or the Agreement_09-11-2015.zip" with you

This fake Dropbox spam appears to come from randomly-generated people..

From:    Sandy Schmitt via Dropbox [no-reply@dropbox.com]
Date:    9 November 2015 at 11:41
Subject:    Sandy Schmitt shared "Amendment or the Agreement_09-11-2015.zip" with you
   
Sandy used Dropbox to share a file with you!

Click here to view.

The link in the email actually goes to sharefile.com where it downloads a file Amendment or the Agreement_09-11-2015.zip containing a malicious execitable Amendment or the Agreement_09-11-2015.scr which has a VirusTotal detection rate of 2/54.

Automated analysis is inconclusive [1] [2] but you can guarantee that this is nothing good. Because of the low detection rates, it might be worth temporarily blocking sharefile.com.

MD5s:
386426E5633B120C3A0E2F605AF42433
2E12D164F40C95284DE13D175DB9BDE2

UPDATE:

My sources (thank you!) say that this is Upatre dropping the Dyre banking trojan, dropping a DLL with a 2/55 detection rate. The comments in that report also contain a list of IP address that you might want to block.

Malware spam: "Payment Notification" / "Sarah Jeffes [messages.4143072.154255.7c0a97a59f@messages.netsuite.com]"

This fake financial spam has a malicious attachment:

From:    Sarah Jeffes [messages.4143072.154255.7c0a97a59f@messages.netsuite.com]
Date:    6 November 2015 at 11:55
Subject:    Payment Notification

Dear Supplier,

Please find attached remittance advice for payment to be processed in your account today.

Kind Regards,
Accounts
Kind Regards Macarthur Gas Pty Ltd.

Attached is a file Bill Payment_00001081_8.xls which in the samples I have seen is identical to the payload of this other spam run going on today.

Malware spam: "Invoice #00004232; From Timber Solutions" / "Kes [kerryadamson@bigpond.com]"

This fake invoice does not come from Timber Solutions but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment:

From:    Kes [kerryadamson@bigpond.com]
Date:    6 November 2015 at 11:07
Subject:    Invoice #00004232; From Timber Solutions

Hi, please find attached our invoice for goods ordered under Order
No. 11146, which will be delivered tomorrow.  Please pay into the
account, details of which are at the foot of the invoice.  Kes

Attached is a file ESale.xls which I have seen just a single variant of across multiple emails. This has a VirusTotal detection rate of 3/54 and contains this malicious macro [pastebin], which (according to this Hybrid Analysis report) downloads a binary from:

advancedgroup.net.au/~incantin/334g5j76/897i7uxqe.exe

..this is saved as %TEMP%\tghtop.exe and has a detection rate of... errr.. zero. Automated analysis of this binary [1] [2] shows network traffic to:

89.108.71.148 (Agava Ltd, Russia)

I strongly recommend that you block traffic that that IP. The payload is most likely to be the Dridex banking trojan.

MD5s:
39fe24d2055f88cff39e27abd7dc5132
6c21a09c80e076ec5b60b7415135ae7a

Malware spam: "Your latest e-invoice from TNT 4677602495 2722813" / "eInvoicing" [groupadminstubbinsDONOTREPLY@tnt.com]

This fake financial invoice does not come from TNT but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment:

From     "eInvoicing" [groupadminstubbinsDONOTREPLY@tnt.com]
Date     Fri, 6 Nov 2015 12:53:01 +0200
Subject     Your latest e-invoice from TNT 4677602495 2722813

PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND - Emails to this address are not monitored or responded to.

Please find attached your TNT Invoice. Please note that our standard payment terms
require cleared funds in our account by the 15th of the month following the month
of invoice.

IMPORTANT CONTACT DETAILS

To register an invoice query please contact us at ukinvoicequeries@tnt.co.uk

To forward a remittance advice or confirm payment please contact us at tntuk.cash.allocation@tnt.com

To set up a Direct Debit plan please contact us at tntdirectdebit@tnt.co.uk

For quick and easy access to your invoices simply log in using your user name and
password to https://express.tnt.com/eInvoicing and you'll be able to view and download
your electronic invoices immediately.

If you have forgotten your user name or password please follow the above link where
you will be able to reset your log-in details. If you are experiencing any technical
issues with your e-Invoicing account please contact us at ukeinvoice@tnt.co.uk

Rest assured, we operate a secure system, so we can confirm that the invoice PDF
originates from TNT and is authenticated with a digital signature. Thank you for
using e-invoicing with TNT the smarter, faster, greener way of processing invoices.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise
protected from disclosure.
If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete
this message and any attachment from your system.
If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment
or disclose the contents to any other person.
Please consider the environmental impact before printing this document and its attachment(s).
Print black and white and double-sided where possible.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The attached file is inv6219014291_0519182.zip, although I don't have a sample of that at the moment. The payload is likely to be the Upatre downloader leading to the Dyre banking trojan.

Malware spam: "Document from AL-KO" / info@alko.co.uk

This spam does not come from AL-KO but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment:

From     [info@alko.co.uk]
Date     Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:33:40 +0530
Subject     Document from AL-KO

This document is DOC created by Osiris OSFAX(R) V3.5.
It can be viewed and printed with Microsoft Word(R)

Document from AL-KO.doc

Attached is a file Document from AL-KO-01.doc which probably comes in many different versions, but I've only had the chance to run two through analysis. Both are undetected by any AV vendor [1] [2] at present. The structure of the document seems unusual and I am having some difficulties seeing the malicious macros, but these two Hybrid Analysis reports [3] [4] show the macro in action, downloading from:

members.dodo.com.au/~mfranklin17/f75f9juu/009u98j9.exe
www.mazzoni-hardware.de/f75f9juu/009u98j9.exe

There will be other locations too, all downloading the same binary with a detection rate of 4/54 (MD5 39f7827813ac9bc74a4a9176c9e80487) Other automated analyses [5] [6] show network traffic to:

128.199.122.196 (Digital Ocean, Singapore)
75.99.13.123 (Cablevision, US)

The payload appears to be the Dridex banking trojan.

Recommended blocklist:
128.199.122.196
75.99.13.123

Malware spam: "Email from Transport for London" / noresponse@cclondon.com

This fake Transport for London spam is a variation of something used before. It does not actually come from TfL, but is a simple forgery with a malicious attachment:

From     "Transport for London" [noresponse@cclondon.com]
Date     Wed, 4 Nov 2015 14:33:44 +0100
Subject     Email from Transport for London

Dear Customer

Please open the attached file to view correspondence from Transport for London.

If the attachment is in PDF format you may need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read or download
this attachment. If you require Adobe Acrobat Reader this is available at no cost
from the Adobe Website www.adobe.com

Thank you for contacting Transport for London.

Business Operations
Customer Service Representative

______________________________________________________________________
This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service.

This email and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee, are strictly
confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient
any reading, dissemination, copying or any other use or reliance is prohibited. If
you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately by email
and then permanently delete the email.

Attached is a file 6305093.zip of which I have seen just one sample, containing a malicious executable 6305093.scr (MD5 6a4cce90ba28720fa9e6813f681b1f75) which has a VirusTotal detection rate of 7/54. This Hybrid Analysis report shows it communicating with the well-known malicious IP address of 197.149.90.166 (Cobranet, Nigeria) which I recommend you block.

The payload here seems to be Upatre dropping the Dyre banking trojan.

Malware spam: "New Invoice from Documents Online" / "Documents Online Limited" [sales@documentsonline.co.uk]

This fake financial spam has a malicious attachment:

From     "Documents Online Limited" [sales@documentsonline.co.uk]
Date     Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:24:30 +0530
Subject     New Invoice from Documents Online

Dear Customer,

This is a notice that an invoice has been generated against your account, details
of the invoice are as follows:

Invoice #241
Amount Due: 90.00GBP
Due Date: 01/12/2015
Payment Method: Bank Transfer

Invoice Items

[redacted] (01/12/2015-31/12/2015) 75.00GBP

------------------------------------------------------
Sub Total: 75.00GBP
20.00% UK VAT: 15.00GBP
Credit: 0.00GBP
Total: 90.00GBP
------------------------------------------------------

Please find attached a copy of this invoice in PDF format for your records.

IMPORTANT: Please open the attached file using your temporary password. Your temporary
password is: UCZ941QXO941

If you have a Direct Debit setup via our payment gateway GoCardless, payment will
be taken automatically on or shortly after the invoice due date. Alternatively payment
can be made in one of the following ways:

1) Online via Credit/Debit card by clicking this link: http://www.documentsonline.co.uk/clients/viewinvoice.php?id=241

2) Bank Transfer:

    Lloyds TSB, PO Box 1000, BX1 1LT
    Account: Documents Online Limited
    Sort: 30-94-47
    Account: 39921360

3) Setting up a Direct Debit using our payment gateway GoCardless by following these
steps:

a) Click this payment link: http://www.documentsonline.co.uk/clients/viewinvoice.php?id=223
(you will need your portal login details).
b) You will be presented with the invoice, click the "Create Subscription" button
top right of the invoice.
c) You will then be automatically redirected to the Go Cardless website, follow the
instructions on screen to setup a recurring direct debit payment.

Thank you for your business and we look forward to receiving your payment.

Kind Regards,

Documents Online Limited
www.documentsonline.co.uk

Attached is a password-protected ZIP file Invoice-241.zip (in the case, the password is UCZ941QXO941) which in turn contains a malicious executable Invoice-241.zip.exe (MD5 c5770e371cdfde80dc87187b249b19ea) which appears to be undetected at present.

Analysis of the binary is pending, but it will be nothing good.

UPDATE:
This Hybrid Analysis report shows traffic consistent with Upatre dropping the Dyre banking trojan, including traffic to the well known bad IP of:

197.149.90.166 (Cobranet, Nigeria)

Malware spam: "Delivery Confirmation: 0068352929" / "ACUVUE_DEL [ship-confirm@acuvue.com]"

This fake financial spam does not comes from Acuvue, but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment:

From     ACUVUE_DEL [ship-confirm@acuvue.com]
Date     Tue, 03 Nov 2015 12:26:17 +0200
Subject     Delivery Confirmation: 0068352929

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL.  IT IS A SYSTEM GENERATED MESSAGE.

Attached is a pdf file containing items that have shipped
Please contact us if there are any questions or further assistance we can provide

Attached is a file Advance Shipping Notification 0068352929.DOC which my sources (thank you, btw) say comes in four different versions, although I have only seen three (VirusTotal results [1] [2] [3], Hybrid Analysis results [4] [5] [6])  containing a macro that looks like this [pastebin]. The download locations are:

builders-solutions.com/45gce333/097j6h5d.exe
goalaskatours.com/45gce333/097j6h5d.exe
www.frontiernet.net/~propertiespricedtosell/45gce333/097j6h5d.exe
www.prolococopparo.it/45gce333/097j6h5d.exe

This malicious binary has a VirusTotal detection rate of 6/54. That VT report and this Hybrid Analysis report show network communications to the following IPs:

128.199.122.196 (Digital Ocean, Singapore)
75.99.13.123 (Cablevision, US)
198.74.58.153 (Linode, US)
221.132.35.56 (Ho Chi Minh City Post and Telecom Company, Vietnam)

The payload is most likely to be the Dridex banking trojan.

Recommended blocklist:
128.199.122.196
75.99.13.123
198.74.58.153
221.132.35.56

MD5s:
c6cefd2923164aa14a3bbaf0dfbea669
8de322b1fb6a2cc3cbe237baa8d5f277
110d5fde265cd25842b63b9ec4e57b3c
dcf4314773c61d3dde6226a2d67424e8
274695746758801bfb68f46f79bfb638

Scam: "European Trademark Publication" / "ETP" / "etp-publication.com"

A little while ago I registered a trademark. I was a bit surprised to see a small flurry of scammers following that up (by snail mail), sending me what to all intents and purposes are fake invoices. Here is one of them.

In the greyed-out text at the bottom, you can just about read the bit where they give the game away..

Basically, this "ETP" outfit is saying.. send us £930 for no reason at all. Avoid.

Malware spam: "Purchase Order 37087-POR" / "Margaret Wimperis [MargaretWimperis@biasbinding.com]"

This fake financial spam does not come from K. Stevens (Leicester) Ltd but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.

From     Margaret Wimperis [MargaretWimperis@biasbinding.com]
Date     Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:28:23 +0700
Subject     Purchase Order 37087-POR

Hi
Please confirm receipt of order
Kind regards
Margaret


-----------------------------
K. Stevens (Leicester) Ltd. Portishead Road, Leicester LE5 0JL Reg. No. 3125088
This email and any attachments are believed to be virus free, however
recipients are responsible for appropriate virus checks. The email and
attachments are confidential to the addressee and unauthorised use, copying or
retention by others is prohibited. The views expressed by the author are not
necessarily those of  K. Stevens (Leicester) Ltd.

-----------------------------

Attached is a file PORDER.DOC which comes in three different versions (although I only have two samples [1] [2]) containing a malicious macro similar to this one [pastebin], which download a binary from the following locations:

saltup.com/34g3f3g/68k7jh65g.exe
landprosystems.com/34g3f3g/68k7jh65g.exe
jambidaily.com/34g3f3g/68k7jh65g.exe

This binary has a detection rate of 4/55 and according that that VirusTotal report, this reverse.it report this Malwr report it contacts the following IP:

128.199.122.196 (DigitalOcean, Singapore)

I strongly recommend that you block that IP. The payload is likely to be the Dridex banking trojan.

MD5s:
eb7df68bd7eb7cf2968cf541af3472d6
fca7c5a1b7fc754588da67c04d225504
6e07bb7f248492d54fdd604ca29da776
867295e266fc496572e42c9cd6281132

Malware spam: "Purchase Order 0000035394 customer 09221" / "Clare Harding" [purchasing@carterspackaging.com]

This fake financial spam does not come from Carters Packaging Ltd but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.

From     "Clare Harding" [purchasing@carterspackaging.com]
Date     Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:42:26 +0530
Subject     Purchase Order 0000035394 customer 09221

Purchase Order 0000035394

Dear customer,

Please find attached a copy of our order (reference 0000035394), your
reference .

If you have any questions regarding the purchase order please contact us
using the details below.

CLARE HARDING

Purchasing Manager
Carters Packaging Ltd, Packaging House, Wilson Way, Pool, Redruth, Cornwall,
TR15 3RT
Fax: +44 (0) 1209 315 600
www.carterspackaging.com

purchasing@carterspackaging.com

Attached is a file Purchase Order 0000035394.doc which apparently comes in several different versions, although all the samples I saw had the same attachment with a VirusTotal detection rate of 5/55 and which contained this malicious macro [pastebin].

Download locations for all the document versions (h/t to my source) are:

malajsie.webzdarma.cz/45y3f34f/7jh4wqd.exe
fa31.linux-hosting.de/45y3f34f/7jh4wqd.exe
ankarasogukhavadepo.com/45y3f34f/7jh4wqd.exe
selimkaucuk.com/45y3f34f/7jh4wqd.exe

It looks like this is saved as %TEMP%\httsser.exe and it has a VirusTotal detection rate of 5/55. That VirusTotal report and this reverse.it report show that it generates network traffic to:

221.132.35.56 (Ho Chi Minh City Post and Telecom Company, Vietnam)

I strongly recommend that you block access to that IP. The payload appears to be the Dridex banking trojan.

MD5s:
a5c52bd47f7fdfd54a2584a669eabe59
337435ffd7a94ce05bea59c0d312e5b3
48dde939b402533d37065bc606ed45a1
d3b4f459d089e6afd52d5650c31aa25e
e70ae9099a5e6daef41fd8dc15191756

Carters Packaging are on the ball and have put a big notice on their site, which is nice work.

Malware spam: "Domain [domain] Suspension Notice" / abuse@enom.com.org

There appear to be many versions of this spam, aimed at domain owners and apparently coming from the actual registrar of the domain. For added authenticity, the owner's name is included in the spam. Here is one example that I got.. it would have been very convincing, except that I had the heads up on this attack a couple of day ago.

From:    ENOM, INC. [abuse@enom.com.org]
Date:    30 October 2015 at 04:11
Subject:    Domain LAPTOP-MEMORY.COM Suspension Notice

Dear Sir/Madam,

The following domain names have been suspended for violation of the ENOM, INC. Abuse Policy:

Domain Name: LAPTOP-MEMORY.COM
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Registrant Name: CONRAD LONGMORE

Multiple warnings were sent by ENOM, INC. Spam and Abuse Department to give you an opportunity to address the complaints we have received.

We did not receive a reply from you to these email warnings so we then attempted to contact you via telephone.

We had no choice but to suspend your domain name when you did not respond to our attempts to contact you.

Click here and download a copy of complaints we have received.

Please contact us for additional information regarding this notification.

Sincerely,
ENOM, INC.
Spam and Abuse Department
Abuse Department Hotline: 480-406-7704

In this case, clicking on the link goes to edecisions.com/abuse_report.php?LAPTOP-MEMORY.COM and downloads a file LAPTOP-MEMORY.COM_copy_of_complaints.pdf.scr - it looks more authentic because the domain name is in the file download, but in fact you can specify any domain name and it gives a matching file.

Before we look at the analysis of the downloaded executable, let's look at the domain name edecisions.com. It looks like the sort of domain that might contain abuse reports, but in fact it is a hijacked GoDaddy domain hosted on 65.78.174.100 and a quick look at VirusTotal indicates that one of the other 4 sites on the same server was also compromised and was serving up malware in 2013. This is definitely a good candidate to block.

The downloaded file has a VirusTotal detection rate of 2/55. Automated analysis tools [1] [2] [3] indicate that whatever the hell this is, it tries to contact a LOT of other servers. We can see that the following domain names are accessed (mostly POST attempts):

0tv.co
abettertravelagent.com
agentclicktocall.com
airconditioning12601.com
all-inclusiveresortstravel.com
allgroupstravel.com
allreadytravel.com
ameliastyle.com
anabolicsteroidsrx.com
anunciamicasa.com
aprovechatudia.com
armangarzon.info
beachhouseplans.com
bigboattravel.com
biznal.com
bloccailmutuo.com
boilersandfurnaces.com
breakerhub.com
breathtakingsolutions.com
brindegenie.com
cameroonmarket.com
camirate.com
carltonchambers.co.uk
certifiedphytoceramides.com
chuckwhitlock.com
ciiapparelblog.com
circuitbreakerhub.com
colebar.com
cpasolutiononline.com
cruiseandtravel.agency
cruises-travelandmore.com
cruisetravelpros.com
cruisewithdawn.com
cruisingatdawn.com
cywellness.com
dallascircuitbreaker.co
dallascircuitbreaker.com
dallaselectricalsurplus.com
dallasreconditionedtransformers.com
dangerousgarciniacambogia.com
dawat-restaurant.com
designbrossard.com
designingartinstitute.com
designtravelagency.com
destinycruiseandtravel.com
enterrealtyny.com
superfunshoes.com
tarkshyainc.com

Note that almost everything is in the A-D range, which makes me suspect that this is only a fraction of the compromised domains. If we look at the IP addresses of those domains, then it gets even more interesting:

50.87.144.249 (Unified Layer, US)
50.87.151.145 (Unified Layer, US)
108.167.140.175 (WebSiteWelcome, US) [13 instances]
162.144.0.215 (Unified Layer, US)
162.144.12.115 (Unified Layer, US)
192.185.5.33 (WebSiteWelcome, US) [2 instances]
192.185.16.67 (WebSiteWelcome, US) [7 instances]
192.185.19.115 (WebSiteWelcome, US)
192.185.21.162 (WebSiteWelcome, US)
192.185.22.63 (WebSiteWelcome, US) [4 instances]
192.185.90.237 (WebSiteWelcome, US)
192.185.101.210 (WebSiteWelcome, US)
192.185.140.214 (WebSiteWelcome, US)
192.185.152.133 (WebSiteWelcome, US) [2 instances]
192.185.183.81 (WebSiteWelcome, US)
192.185.226.164 (WebSiteWelcome, US)
192.254.186.85 (WebSiteWelcome, US) [2 instances]
192.254.231.138 (WebSiteWelcome, US)
192.254.234.204 (WebSiteWelcome, US)
198.57.242.171 (Unified Layer, US) [4 instances]
198.57.244.38 (Unified Layer, US)
208.109.119.156 (GoDaddy, US)

A check of those WebSiteWelcome and Unified Layer IPs on VirusTotal (for example 192.185.226.164) indicates several compromised domains on the same server, indicating that the entire box has been popped.

It isn't clear what the payload is, but given the fact that it is aimed at domain owners and given the unusual characteristics of the malware, I can make a guess that it is some sort of password stealer, possibly harvesting domains or server admin credentials. If you are not using multi-factor authentication for your domains, then perhaps now would be a good time to choose to do so.

Recommended blocklist:
50.87.144.249
50.87.151.145
108.167.140.175
162.144.0.215
162.144.12.115
192.185.5.33
192.185.16.67
192.185.19.115
192.185.21.162
192.185.22.63
192.185.90.237
192.185.101.210
192.185.140.214
192.185.152.133
192.185.183.81
192.185.226.164
192.254.186.85
192.254.231.138
192.254.234.204
198.57.242.171
198.57.244.38
65.78.174.100

UPDATE:

The payload appears to be the Cryptowall ransomware.