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Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Malware spam: "Account Compromised" / "Suspicious logon attempt"

These fake security warnings come with a malicious attachment:

From:    Jennings.KarlaVk@ttnet.com.tr
Date:    24 May 2016 at 11:48
Subject:    Account Compromised

Attention!
Suspicious logon attempt to your account was detected (Chrome browser, IP-address: 108.127.172.96)
Reason: unusual IP
Please refer to the attached report to view further detailed information.

BMJ Group
tel. (4813)/675337 33

> Sent from iPad

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From:    Hooper.Cecilep@hotelaviatrans.am
Date:    24 May 2016 at 11:40
Subject:    Suspicious logon attempt

Attention!
Suspicious logon attempt to your account was detected (Chrome browser, IP-address: 223.149.173.250)
Reason: unusual IP
Please refer to the attached report to view further detailed information.

YUJIN INTL LTD
tel. (4020)/438007 92

> Sent from iPad

In the two samples I have seen, there are attachments named Security Report.zip and Security Notification.zip which in turn contain a Word document with a name such as Security Report ID(11701573).doc

The two documents that I have seen have detection rates of about 3/56 [1] [2] but according to these automated analyses [3] [4] [5] [6] it seems that the infection doesn't work properly, failing to find a created file harakiri.exe. This Malwr report shows a dropped file named harakiri.pfx which isn't an executable, my guess is that this is an encrypted file that hasn't decrypted properly.

UPDATE

According to a third party analysis, this apparently drops Dridex which phones home to:

210.245.92.63 (FPT Telecom Company, Vietnam)
162.251.84.219 (PDR Solutions, US)
80.88.89.222 (Aruba, Italy)
213.192.1.171 (EASY Net, Czech Republic)


Recommended blocklist:
210.245.92.63
162.251.84.219
80.88.89.222
213.192.1.171


2 comments:

venbea said...

Hi:

The pfx file coded a exe file.

In my sandbox, this process is creates:

Image Path: %windir%\SysWOW64\certutil.exe certutil -decode %TEMP%\\harakiri.pfx %TEMP%\\harakiri.exe

harakiri.exe: https://www.virustotal.com/es/file/45b881bdc2df77c7c8786da714dcd1ac33a3e9a3f2dc35c1ef1ae08bf61dd999/analysis/1464096643/

Regards



Unknown said...

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