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Wednesday, 14 October 2009

"A new settings file for the blah@blah.blah mailbox"

A clever bit of social engineering, looks like Zbot:

From: alert@blahblah.tld
Subject: A new settings file for the name@blahblah.tld mailbox

Dear user of the blahblah.tld mailing service!
We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (name@blahblah.tld) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:

http://blahblah.tld/owa/service_directory/settingsphp
?email=name@blahblah.tld&from=blahblag.tld&fromname=name
Best regards, blahblah.tld Technical Support.


The link is a forgery, underneath it is actually blahblah.tld.polikka.eu/owa/service_directory/settings.php
?email=name@blahblah.tld&from=blahblah.tld&fromname=name

polikka.eu was registered just today, the registration details are:

Domäne
Name
polikka
Status
REGISTRIERT
Registriert
October 14, 2009
Letzte Aktualisierung
October 14, 2009, 4:35 pm

Registrant
Name
Spasova, Galia
Unternehmen/Organisation
Galia Spasova
Sprache
Englisch
Adresse
j.k. Droujba-1
44231 paris
Frankreich
Telefon
+32.8834336218
E-Mail
gsmailva@ge-88.com

Probably fake you might think, except that "j.k. Droujba-1" is an address in Sofia, not Paris. And it belongs to a company called GE-88 Ltd who have a website of ge-88.com. So, the email address in the WHOIS does seem to trace back to a Bulgarian company. And what does GE-88 Ltd do? Ummm.. well, it appears to manufacture alloys. It could be fake, perhaps their mailserver is compromised..

Nameservers are ns1.supranull.com and ns1.trapsing.net (96.31.81.80 - Noc4Hosts Inc) (although the site is not resolving at the moment).

Just as I was typing this in, another one came through using the domain oikkkkua.co.uk as a redirector:

Domain name:
oikkkkua.co.uk

Registrant:
Evelyn Wilson

Registrant type:
Non-UK Individual

Registrant's address:
805 E. Stocker
paris
68554
Belgium

Registrar:
Webfusion Ltd t/a 123-Reg.co.uk [Tag = 123-REG]
URL: http://www.123-reg.co.uk

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 14-Oct-2009
Renewal date: 14-Oct-2011
Last updated: 14-Oct-2009

Registration status:
Registration request being processed.

Name servers:
ns1.horstsolution.net
ns1.soon-moon.com

Again, this one isn't resolving yet but it was just registered today.

2 comments:

Matt said...

We are geting the same exact thing
from two differnt domains.

wsasdec.eu
and
polikka.eu

Unknown said...

it's seems to be a new kind of pishing.

I also received the same email with a targeted url diferent from what it's pretends...

So keep away !!!

François