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Friday 4 October 2013

Fake Dropbox spam leads to malware on adelect.com

This fake Dropbox spam leads to malware:

Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 2013 16:24:30 +0330 [08:54:30 EDT]
From:      Dropbox [no-reply@dropboxmail.com]
Subject:      Please update your Expired Dropbox Password

Hi [redacted].

We noticed that you recently tried to login in to Dropbox with a password that you haven't changed more than 90 days. Your old password has expired and you'll need to create a new one to log in.

Please visit the page to update your password

Reset Password

Thanks!
- The Dropbox Team

The link in the email goes through a legitimate hacked site and then on to a set of three scripts:

[donotclick]12.158.190.75/molls/smudgier.js
[donotclick]freetraffic2yourweb.com/palermo/uneconomic.js
[donotclick]www.bathroomchoice.com/huntsmen/bestsellers.js

From there the victim is delivered to a malware landing page at [donotclick]adelect.com/topic/latest-blog-news.php which follows a predictable pattern of being a hijacked GoDaddy domain hosted on 66.150.155.210 (Nuclear Fallout Enterprises, US). There are some other hijacked domains on this same server listed below in italics.

Recommended blocklist:
66.150.155.210
wrightleasing.com
renewalbyandersendayton.com
adelect.com

12.158.190.75
freetraffic2yourweb.com
www.bathroomchoice.com

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