Malware spam: "INVOICE" / "Brenda Howcroft [accounts@swaledalefoods.co.uk]"

This fake financial spam does not come from Swaledale Foods but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.

From:    Brenda Howcroft [accounts@swaledalefoods.co.uk]
Date:    21 December 2015 at 10:46
Subject:    INVOICE

Your report is attached in DOC format. To load the report, you will need the free Microsoft® Word® reader, available to download at http://www.microsoft.com/

Many thanks,

Brenda Howcroft

Office Manager

t 01756 793335 sales

t 01756 790160 accounts

e accounts@swaledalefoods.co.uk

w www.swaledalefoods.co.uk

This email transmission is confidential and intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this e-mail in error please delete it immediately and notify the sender, Any disclosure including copying or distribution of the information contained herein is strictly prohibited. Any opinions, instructions or advice contained in this email may not necessarily be those of the company. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defects, which might affect any computer or system it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure they are virus free. E&OE.

Invoice 14702.doc 83K

Attached is a file Invoice 14702.doc which comes in at least 9 different versions (VirusTotal results [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]). I haven't had the chance to analyse them, but my sources say that at least some versions download from the following locations:

110.164.184.28/jh45wf/98i76u6h.exe
getmooresuccess.com/jh45wf/98i76u6h.exe
rahayu-homespa.com/jh45wf/98i76u6h.exe

This dropped file has a detection rate of 6/54. The Hybrid Analysis report plus some other sources indicate network traffic to:

199.7.136.88 (Megawire, Canada)
151.80.142.33 (OVH, France)
202.69.40.173 (Gerrys Information Technology (pvt) Ltd, Pakistan)
78.47.66.169 (Hetzner, Germany)

The payload is the Dridex banking trojan.

MD5s:
6932A004CE3AD1AD5EA30F43A31B0285
49CF8C70BC4E94F6887ED0CBC426F08C
92B1F1B4BBD864411FA75C951D28EC5D
E4CB705754C93645D3F86F8AF9307769
D409889F92DA9B8D855C0037894A46CC
87CA159B9AEB127F698D2AA28A5BAAC5
C770760C66298301D1BE29E85ECBE971
F2FF5FCE2836025E97691937D6DF579E
6617EAB5B4DD17247DFF1819CA444674
EE57F929672651C1AE238EB7C7A0D734

Recommended blocklist:
199.7.136.88
151.80.142.33
202.69.40.173
78.47.66.169