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Thursday 12 March 2015

Malware spam: "Invoice [1234XYZ] for payment to COMPANY NAME"

These rather terse emails appear to refer to various companies, and all come with a malicious attachment:

From:    Erasmo Small
Date:    12 March 2015 at 09:40
Subject:    Invoice [3479XZM] for payment to INCOME & GROWTH VCT PLC(THE)

From:    Eli Ramirez
Date:    12 March 2015 at 08:37
Subject:    Invoice [4053FJK] for payment to RANDGOLD RESOURCES

From:    Richard Baxter
Date:    12 March 2015 at 08:37
Subject:    Invoice [3020JQM] for payment to TARSUS GROUP PLC

From:    Megan Dennis
Date:    12 March 2015 at 09:36
Subject:    Invoice [4706CEZ] for payment to SHANKS GROUP

The attachment is a Word document with a name that matches the reference in the subject. So far, I have seen two different versions of this with low detection rates [1] [2] which contain these malicious macros [1] [2] [pastebin] which contain some quite entertaining obfuscation, but when deobfuscated try to download an additional component from the following locations:

https://92.63.88.102/api/gb1.exe
https://85.143.166.124/api/gb1.exe

Note the use of HTTPS. Those two IP addresses belong to:

92.63.88.102 (MWTV, Latvia)
85.143.166.124 (Pirix, Russia)


Both are well-known hosts for this sort of rubbish. According to the Malwr report this attempts to phone home to:

95.163.121.33 (Digital Networks CJSC aka DINETHOSTING, Russia)

Digital Networks is also a sea of crap. It also drops a Dridex DLL with a detection rate of 9/57.

Recommended blocklist:
95.163.121.0/24
92.63.82.0/23
92.63.84.0/22
92.63.88.0/24
85.143.166.0/24


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