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Wednesday 20 January 2016

Malware spam: " Invoice / Credit Note Express Newspapers (S174900)" / georgina.kyriacoumilner@express.co.uk

This fake financial spam is not from Express Newspapers but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment:

From:    georgina.kyriacoumilner@express.co.uk
Reply-To:    hannah.johns@express.co.uk
Date:    20 January 2016 at 14:28
Subject:    Invoice / Credit Note Express Newspapers (S174900)

Please find attached Invoice(s) / Credit Note(s) from Express Newspapers.

If you have any queries with it, or to request that future documents get sent to a different email address for processing, please contact:

hannah.johns@express.co.uk or telephone 020 8612 7149.

N.B. Please do not reply to this email address as it is not checked.

Kind Regards,

Express Newspapers
Finance Dept - 4th Floor,The Northern & Shell Building
Number 10 Lower Thames Street, London EC3R 6EN

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EXN2006 
Attached is a file S174900.DOC which comes in at least three different versions (VirusTotal results [1] [2] [3]) and the Malwr reports for those [4] [5] [6] shows the following download locations:

www.helios.vn/98jh6d5/89hg56fd.exe [404 error]
202.191.112.60/~n02022-1/98jh6d5/89hg56fd.exe

www.lassethoresen.com/98jh6d5/89hg56fd.exe

These are the same locations as seen here, but now the payload has changed to one with an MD5 of 34781d4f8654f9547cc205061221aea5 and a detection rate of 1/54. The malware still phones home to
216.224.175.92 (SoftCom America Inc, US) which I recommend you block.

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