Malware spam: "Invoice from DSV 723A36B7 , ARIA (U K) LTD, 04995672, Customer ref: ALEX MUNRO, SE/GB"

This fake financial spam is not from DSV Road Limited but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.

From:    Hoyt Fowler
Date:    8 January 2016 at 10:49
Subject:    Invoice from DSV 723A36B7 , ARIA (U K) LTD, 04995672, Customer ref: ALEX MUNRO, SE/GB
Invoice/Creditnote no.: 723A36B7

Total Amount:   GBP 60,00

Due Date:               28.01.2016

If you have any questions to this invoice/creditnote please contact the person written in the upper right corner of the invoice.
Please see attached document.


Best Regards
Hoyt Fowler
DSV Road Limited
Scandinavia House
Parkeston, Harwich
Essex, CO12 4QG No.3874882

Tel: 01255 242242
Registered in England
VAT No. GB759894254
Global Transport and Logistics

I have only seen a single sample of this email at present, but if consistent with other similar emails then details such as the sender's name and reference numbers will vary. In this case, the attachment was named INV-SE723A36B7.doc and had a VirusTotal detection rate of 1/55.

According to this Malwr report, the sample attempts to download a further component:

194.28.84.79/softparade/spanish.php

There will most likely be a couple of other download locations too (check back later for more). This IP address belongs to Hostpro in Ukraine. Those other locations are likely to be in Ukraine too.

A file named hram.exe is dropped onto to target system with a detection rate of 4/54. The Malwr report indicates that this communicates with:

78.47.119.93 (Hetzner, Germany)

This is a critical IP to block, as we also saw it in use yesterday. The payload is most likely the Dridex banking trojan.

UPDATE 1

A contact (thank you) let me know of two other download locations:

176.103.62.14/softparade/spanish.php
51.254.51.178/softparade/spanish.php

These are:

176.103.62.14 (PE Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich, Ukraine)
51.254.51.178 (OVH, France / Dmitry Shestakov, Russia)

Both those are pretty well-known providers of malware.  I recommend that you block the entire /20 in the first instance and the blocks referenced here in the second.

MD5s:
5ab2a67268b3362802a13594edafbd2e
7d60996dd9293df5eecd07f33207aca8

Recommended blocklist:
78.47.119.93
194.28.84.79
176.103.48.0/20
51.254.51.176/30

UPDATE 2

An updated version of the payload is currently being spammed out as on 11.01.16, with a payload identical to this spam run.

Malware spam: "Close Invoice Finance Limited Statement 1/1"

This fake financial spam comes with a malicious attachment:

From:    Carey Cross
Date:    7 January 2016 at 11:35
Subject:    Close Invoice Finance Limited Statement 1/1

Dear Customer,

Please find attached your latest statement from Close Brothers Invoice Finance.

Your username is 05510/0420078
Your password should already be known to you.

If you have any queries please contact:

For Credit Control: creditcontrolqueriesCBIF@closebrothers.com

For login help: closloginhelp@netsend.biz

If you’re considering growing your business or are simply looking for support with cash flow, visit our website to see how we can help www.closeinvoice.co.uk/cashflow

Regards

Close Brothers Invoice Finance

The sernder's name will vary, as will the attachment name. I have only seen a single sample at the moment with a detection rate of 2/54. Functionally, the payload is identical to that found in this earlier spam run, and it drops the Dridex banking trojan.

Malware spam: "Invoice 01147665 19/12 £4024.80" / "Ibstock Group"

This fake financial spam is not from the Ibstock Group but instead contains a malicious attachment. It is closely related to this spam which was sent out earlier today.

From:    Amber Smith
Date:    7 January 2016 at 10:38
Subject:    Invoice 01147665 19/12 £4024.80

Hi,

Happy New Year to you !

Hope you had a lovely break.

Many thanks for the payment. There’s just one invoice that hasn’t been paid and doesn’t seem to have a query against it either.

Its invoice  01147665  19/12  £4024.80  P/O ETCPO 35094

Can you have a look at it for me please?

Thank-you !

Kind regards
Amber Smith
Credit Control
Finance Department
Ibstock Group
Supporting Ibstock, Ibstock-Kevington & Forticrete
-----------------------------------------------
( +44 (0)1530 257371
( VPN: 700 2371
6  +44 (0)1530 257379

The sender's name varies, as does the reference number which matches the name of the attachment. I have seen three unique samples so far (there are probably more) with VirusTotal detection rates of 2/54 [1] [2] [3] and the Malwr reports [4] [5] [6] show these documents communicating with:

193.201.227.12/ideal/jenny.php
91.223.88.205/ideal/jenny.php
176.103.62.108/ideal/jenny.php

IPs are allocated to:

176.103.62.108 (Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich, Ukraine)
91.223.88.205 (Private Person Anton Malyi, Ukraine)
193.201.227.12 (PE Tetyana Mysyk, Ukraine)

As before, a binary geroin.exe is dropped which communicates with:

78.47.119.93 (Hetzner, Germany)

The payload is the Dridex banking trojan. The recommended blocklist and sample MD5s can be found in this post.

Malware spam: "Your Latest Documents from Angel Springs Ltd [1F101177]"

This fake financial spam comes with a malicious attachment. The name of the sender varies, as does the reference number in the subject field that matches the attachment name.

From:    Leonor Stevens
Date:    7 January 2016 at 10:13
Subject:    Your Latest Documents from Angel Springs Ltd [1F101177]

Dear Customer,

Please find attached your latest document (s). You may have noticed that we have changed the way you receive your new attached documents from Angel Springs. Following feedback from our customers we've invested in upgrading our billing systems to make things a little easier for you.

Here's a few ways we've made it easier for you:

    Your new documents are now attached to your email. You don't have to follow a link now to get to your documents.

    Our customer portal has been upgraded to give you a clearer, simpler view of your documents and any outstanding invoices.

    You can simply and easily raise any queries you may have through the customer portal.

Please note: you may wish to save your documents on initial viewing. However, after your first viewing you will be able to access copy documents by simply clicking the link.

If you would like to discuss or have any queries in relation to any of the documents then please do not hesitate to contact us on 0845 230 9555 and we will be more than happy to assist you. Please do not reply to this email.

To see Angel Springs latest special offer that will save you money and help support Make a Wish, please click on the attached document

With Kind Regards,

Angel Springs Ltd

Yesterday I saw several spam runs similar to this coming from Dridex botnet 120. There are many, many variations of the attachment although I do not believe that they are uniquely-generated.

The three samples I have sent for analysis so far has VirusTotal detection rates of 2/55 [1] [2] [3] and the Malwr reports [4] [5] [6] show an initial communication with:

193.201.227.12/ideal/jenny.php
91.223.88.205/ideal/jenny.php
176.103.62.108/ideal/jenny.php
These IPs belong to:

176.103.62.108 (Ivanov Vitaliy Sergeevich, Ukraine)
91.223.88.205 (Private Person Anton Malyi, Ukraine)
193.201.227.12 (PE Tetyana Mysyk, Ukraine)

I note that 91.223.88.204 also hosts some bad things.. and the entire 176.103.48.0/20 block has a history of evil-ness [1] [2] [3].

Note that there are probably other download locations. Check back later if you are interested.

These malicious documents drop a binary geroin.exe which has a detection rate of 3/54. The Malwr report for this shows it phoning home to:

78.47.119.93 (Hetzner, Germany)

Binary MD5:
088724715613ff48edf090a74c8b6413

Attachment MD5s:
53521464ee6d70ec6c93f2e038e92651
3dfef23d2f6846133f1758dca675afd2
9bfadfe1c8dd23a0358c5ae4a6f7f465
a1c601351f865e5d9f8315ecc867971d
939aa6ebf02a338fab864690467909fa
1021f12f47d1d68e12d3e81ad6f44a92
30097bc5a0903db248252f3e01344b8b
25ae775c96146b4bfba1a88f755ccc20
c225905d94f1b3a0a1dae86109c80e51
617d676e09a74fa0fb099509a2f57ac8
fbb83ab6ae5a3ef2bac5f5ff549713b5
7d5b9851c8bc682ff621568cc648c9e6
3a4cb5fa7aa75afc72cef5709576f441
0b60bad71222d1fb091efeef6fa3524a
ed8f764742a827d23a56c439a0393448
1b93d2fcbe94d9a6e248ddf964078406
f37cfbead3e52549c7490a4aaf20e423
2ef9a2bb6e59c75cef3643700e054385
d167d52dfd4d69c7cf336abff6b71280
d1038a983442ce25535d707e9568b03b


Recommended blocklist:
176.103.48.0/20
91.223.88.204/30
78.47.119.93
193.201.227.12

Malware spam: "Unilet Invoice 67940597"

This fake invoice seems to be a bit confused as to who is sending it. It has a malicious attachment.

From:    Desiree Doyle
Date:    6 January 2016 at 12:29
Subject:    Unilet Invoice 67940597

Hello,

Please find attached another invoice to pay please by BACS.

Thanks
Desiree Doyle
Accounts Department

-----Original Message-----
From: Desiree Doyle
Sent: 06 January 2016 12:30
To: Desiree Doyle
Subject: Scanned from a Xerox Multifunction Device



Please open the attached document. It was scanned and sent to you using a Xerox Multifunction Device.

Attachment File Type: pdf, Multi-Page

Multifunction Device Location: Melbury House-MG01
Device Name: 7225


For more information on Xerox products and solutions, please visit http://www.xerox.com


BU is a Disability Two Ticks Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.

The attachment has a random name in the format remit41071396.doc and I have seen three different versions with quite low detection rates [1] [2] [3]. The Malwr reports for these [4] [5] [6] indicate that it has the same behaviour as the spam documented here, dropping a file tsx.exe with an MD5 of fdd95b4cc10b536934486c7d3fdee04f.

Malware spam: "STA19778072 - BACS PAYMENT"

This fake financial spam comes with different sender names, reference details and attachment names. However, in all cases the attachment is malicious.

From:    Forrest Cleveland
Date:    6 January 2016 at 11:23
Subject:    STA19778072 - BACS PAYMENT

Importance: High

Hello,

Wasn’t sure who to email.

I don’t know if you have been asked but Statestrong Products Ltd are making one payment today for two cars. Could you let me know when it is in the account please as these are both collections tomorrow.

YG15XVK paid set up fee by card
£455.99 Incl vat rental
£500 deposit

DE64ZXM
£210 setup fee
£431.99 Incl vat rental
£500 deposit

Total - £2097.98

Thanks

Lorie

So far I have seen three different attachment variants (VirusTotal results [1] [2] [3]) and these Malwr reports [4] [5] [6] indicate the same general characteristics as this spam run. However in this case the dropped file tsx3.exe has been updated and the new version has a detection rate of 6/54. The Malwr report indicates very similar traffic to before.

Recommended blocklist:
94.158.214.45
78.47.119.93
2.61.168.116
37.46.130.53
179.60.144.21
195.191.25.138
109.234.34.224

Malware spam: "Payment notification from Third Energy Services Limited"

This fake financial email comes with a malicious attachment.

From:    Addie Caldwell
Date:    6 January 2016 at 10:31
Subject:    Payment notification from Third Energy Services Limited

Payment notification from Third Energy Services Limited

Third Energy Services Limited

Registered in England & Wales. Registered number: 85752524.
Registered office: 7th Floor. Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, UK, SW1E 5BH
Tel: 01944 759904 ot 0207 0420 800
This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Third Energy. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone.
Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error.

Addie

The sender's name varies. So far I have seen three different versions of the attachment (in the format remit85752524.doc or similar) with VirusTotal detection rates in the range of 2/54 [1] [2] [3] and the Malwr reports [4] [5] [6] show similar characteristics to this spam run plus this additional URL:

109.234.34.224/jasmin/authentication.php

This IP is allocated to McHost.RU in Russia and can be considered as malicious. The payload is unknown, but is possible Dridex.

Recommended blocklist:
94.158.214.45
78.47.119.93
2.61.168.116
37.46.130.53
179.60.144.21
195.191.25.138
109.234.34.224

Malware spam: "Invoice for IA20114520"

This fake financial spam comes with a malicious attachment. The sender's name, reference numbers and attachment names vary. It seems to be closely related to this spam run.

From:    Viola Carrillo
Date:    6 January 2016 at 09:53
Subject:    Invoice for IA20114520

To Whom It May Concern,

Please find attached an invoice relating to Penalty Charge Notice Number IA20114520 along with a copy of the contravention.

In order to prevent this fine from escalating further we have paid this fine on your behalf. Should you have any queries concerning these charges please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Payment for this invoice will be taken by Direct Debit 9 working days from the date of this email.

Please refer to page 2, point 3.6 in your Terms and Conditions for information on Traffic Offences.

I have seen two variants of the attachment (VirusTotal results [1] [2]) and these two Malwr reports [3] [4] indicate identical characteristics to the payload in this spam run which is also being sent out today.

Malware spam "Invoice-205611-49934798-CROSSHILL SF"

This fake financial spam has a malicious attachment. The sender's names, reference numbers and attachment names vary. Here is one example:

From:    Bertha Sherman
Date:    6 January 2016 at 09:29
Subject:    Invoice-205611-49934798-CROSSHILL SF

Dear Customer,

Please find attached Invoice 02276770 for your attention.

Should you have any Invoice related queries please do not hesitate to
contact either your designated Credit Controller or the Main Credit Dept. on
01635 279370.

For Pricing or other general enquiries please contact your local Sales Team.

Yours Faithfully,

Credit Dept'

I have seen at least four different attachments with names in a format similar to invoice40201976.doc (VirusTotal results [1] [2] [3] [4]). These Malwr reports [5] [6] [7] [8] show that the malware contained within POSTs to:

37.46.130.53/jasmin/authentication.php
179.60.144.21/jasmin/authentication.php
195.191.25.138/jasmin/authentication.php

Those reports also show communication to other suspect IPs, giving:

94.158.214.45 (Noviton Ltd , Russia)
78.47.119.93 (Hetzner, Germany)
2.61.168.116 (Sibirtelecom, Russia)
37.46.130.53 (JSC Server, Russia)
179.60.144.21 (Veraton Projects Ltd, Netherlands)
195.191.25.138 (Hostpro Ltd, Ukraine)

This Hybrid Analysis also shows similar characteristics.

The macro drops a file tsx3.exe with a detection rate of 7/55. The Malwr report doesn't give any particlar insight as to what this is, but it is likely to be a banking trojan or ransomware. UPDATE: this is Dridex (botnet 120 apparently), and thos the dropped file has been updated to this one.

There are two other similar spam campaigns at the same time [1] [2], one of which POSTs to a McHost.RU IP in Russia:

109.234.34.224/jasmin/authentication.php

MD5s (dropped EXE):
fdd95b4cc10b536934486c7d3fdee04f
613f5e4139e8006e9d47cb562450bc4a


MD5s (attachments):
06afdf7eaa3aa0d07b74c87c2c4bcede
11efa97e6091fa608596b463c9a20718
1574669aae13badc47b5c32927d22fb9
1988f8c864689bfd725e659e0815f032
27f891f6b0c0820492408022a860accc
37cc9d15f4eb5173e30ebff8ae6d44f6
37dd4e12541994d719d669ef7408b042
41faea2d8d7334a1e645cedf2a297344
42694176858ef65ababe87c8eee3679d
430eb4d6bc75b3743169aba0b5c368b9
5a5e5ac6d0e12215d79d2d321ac7a303
60cb6167675a908e9bba8957ece0947b
63abdef9d973b820f656642831ef6e07
7d190049c2354c18bd850d086d8c43c8
81697ef360e4abd09d96cd58bb1c7f01
82e06ae650e81e77879c5a33dba058b6
840b0d424b541d3649c33e8264632ba7
933f50bd87c02b67e122520022677aa6
a17b2fc61c64381ba5a2a154085ee6e7
a1958f55febde3b0fac15490f5e0ac6e
a43490f4c09e519d72296898343ab04f
ab41e3d7fa1e3d98a0bdec1e4086058a
b614c2f6f07620e53375c35efc692596
bc3142ce5e20814e98e582fa9b258501
cda4ba15eebc6ae3a9ab54610b38db04
d44c6490ab1c86adf9a99da1d173fc2f
d86f5160a0ea91bee70972e2bbf2c86d
e8bd65668d68410adacee9463eb1489e
ee70b032f96fb8f484019396aa130a55
ef4fd29b806675346661aec4907a14f7
f39fcd49bdbd7f100047594d8d7875b4
f65d8b3310f758c5d9c0f156d859125f
ff5f8da0f0d4c7e851dbf5c6d94fa0dc
Recommended blocklist:
94.158.214.45
78.47.119.93
2.61.168.116
37.46.130.53
179.60.144.21
195.191.25.138
109.234.34.224

Evil network: 199.195.196.176/29 / Roman Alyabiev

199.195.196.176/29 is a small bunch of IPs hosting browser hijacker sites, belonging to Hosting Services, Inc. in Utah and suballocated to a customer.

Several domains are flagged by Google as leading to PUAs or malware [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6], and almost all those domains also have anonymous registrations.

However, the domain goforfiles.com does not have anonymous registration, and those details are:

Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Roman Alyabiev
Registrant Organization: Righway Technologies, Inc.
Registrant Street: 1740 H Dell Range Blvd #281
Registrant City: Cheyenne
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code: 82009
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.3074590153
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: contact@goforfiles.com
Registry Admin ID: 

There is no such company as "Righway Technologies, Inc" but the name Roman Alyabiev matches the records for the IP block:

network:Network-Name:Dedicated Server
network:IP-Network:199.195.196.176/29
network:IP-Network-Block:199.195.196.176 - 199.195.196.183
network:Org-Name:Alyabiev, Roman
network:Street-Address:pr. Molodeznoi 7 kv. 101
network:City:Kemerovo
network:State:
network:Postal-Code:650044
network:Country-Code:RU

A full list of sites currently or recently hosted in this block can be found here. The domains in use for browser hijacking are:

bestfiledownload.biz
dailyfiledownload.biz
down4load.biz
down-loader.biz
esurf.biz
fansfile.biz
filedatabase.biz
gofor-files.biz
go-for-files.biz
interarchive.biz
loadarchive.biz
lucky-tab.biz
retailfile.biz
sprintload.biz
usedfile.biz
worldfiledownload.biz
yourfiledownloader.biz
archievedownload.com
down4loader.com
downweb-loader.com
express-downloader.com
express-files.com
failsmail.com
filearchieve.com
foryourwebs.com
goforfiles.com
go-for-files.com
houmpage.com
realdown4load.com
safesurfs.com
simple-files.com
smile-file.com
smile-files.com
webdown-loader.com
yfdownloader.com
yorfiled.com
yourfdownloader.com
yourfiledl.com
yourfiledownloader.com
yourfile-downloader.com
yourwebing.com
archievedownload.net
down4loading.net
down4loadist.net
foryourweb.net
goforfiles.net
gofor-files.net
lucky-tab.net
thefailsmail.net
yfdownloader.net
yourfaild.net
yourfdownloader.net
yourfiledownloader.net
yourfile-downloader.net
your-home-page.net
yourwebing.net
goforfiles.org
lucky-browse.org
yourfiledownloader.org

Blocking 199.195.196.176/29 or monitoring traffic to it might detect infected hosts, that appear to have a bunch of per-per-install crapware and other stuff installed.

Malware spam: "Christmas Industrial Decorating invoice-50473367)"

This fake invoice has a malicious attachment:

From:    Rachael Murphy
Date:    23 December 2015 at 13:05
Subject:    Christmas Industrial Decorating invoice-50473367)

Good afternoon,

Please find attached 1 invoice for processing.

Regards and Merry Christmas!

Rachael Murphy
Financial Manager

______________________________________________________________________
This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service.

The sender's name and reference number varies, the attachment is in the format invoice45634499.doc and it comes in at least three different versions (VirusTotal results [1] [2] [3]).

Analysis is pending, the payload is likely to be the Dridex banking trojan.

The payload appears to be the same as the one found in this spam run. 

Malware spam: "UKSM Invoice 70146427" / "uksafetymanagement.co.uk"

This fake financial spam comes with a malicious attachment. It does not come from uksafetymanagement.co.uk but is instead a simple forgery.

From:    Claire Carey
Date:    23 December 2015 at 12:01
Subject:    UKSM Invoice 70146427

Good time of day,

Thank you for choosing UK Safety Management Ltd. to carry out your Portable Appliance Testing.

Please find enclosed your invoice.

Claire Carey
www.uksafetymanagement.co.uk

The sender's name and reference number are randomly generated. Attached is a file in the format invoice29111658.doc which comes in at least three different versions (VirusTotal results [1] [2] [3]).

Analysis of the documents is pending. However, this is likely to be the Dridex banking trojan.

The payload appears to be the same as the one found in this spam run.

Malware spam: "FW: Meridian (Acc. No. 51588088) - Professional Fee Invoice"

This fake financial spam comes with a malicious attachment. The sender's name and reference number is randomly generated.

From:    Josie Ruiz
Date:    23 December 2015 at 11:38
Subject:    FW: Meridian (Acc. No. 51588088) - Professional Fee Invoice

Dear Sir/Madam,

Re:  Meridian Professional Fees

Please find attached our fee note for services provided, which we trust meets with your approval.

Payment should be made to Meridian International VAT Consulting Ltd. within the agreed payment terms.

We look forward to your remittance in due course.

Yours sincerely
Josie Ruiz
Financial CEO

______________________________________________________________________
This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service.
For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
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The attachment has the same reference number as the subject, and there are at least five different versions (VirusTotal results [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]).

Analysis of the documents is pending, but this is likely to be the Dridex banking trojan.

UPDATE 1

Hybrid Analysis of some of the samples [1] [2] shows some download locations:

146.120.89.92/volkswagen/bettle.php
109.234.34.164/volkswagen/bettle.php

Those IPs belong to:

146.120.89.92 (Ukrainian Internet Names Center LTD, Ukraine)
109.234.34.164 (McHost.Ru Inc, Russia)

This is actually an executable with a detection rate of 4/53. The purpose of this executable is unknown, but it is certainly malicious. Analysis is still pending.

UPDATE 2

This Threat Expert report and this Hybrid Analysis both report traffic to a presumably hacked server at:

104.131.59.185 (Digital Ocean, US)

Recommended blocklist:
104.131.59.185
146.120.89.92
109.234.34.164

Malware spam: "CWIH8974 PAYMENT RECEIVED" / "Avril Sparrowhawk [Avril.Sparrowhawk@lescaves.co.uk]"

This fake financial spam does not come from Les Caves de Pyrene but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.

From:    Avril Sparrowhawk [Avril.Sparrowhawk@lescaves.co.uk]
Date:    22 December 2015 at 11:14
Subject:    CWIH8974 PAYMENT RECEIVED
 

Good afternoon

Thanks very much for your payment we recently from you, however there was a missed invoice.  Can you just confirm this will be included in the next payment run, or whether there were any queries with this particular invoice?

I have attached the invoice for your reference.

Kind regards

Avril

Avril Sparrowhawk

Credit Controller

Les Caves De Pyrene

Pew Corner

Old Portsmouth Road

Artington

Guildford

GU3 1LP

' +44 (0)1483 554784

6 +44  (0)1483 455068

CWIH8974.doc 92K

Attached is a malicious document CWIH8974.doc of which I have seen just a single sample with a VirusTotal detection rate of 2/54. There may be other variations of the document, but in this case it downloads a malicious binary from:

secure.novatronica.com/786h8yh/87t5fv.exe

This has a VirusTotal detection rate of 2/53 and is the same payload as found in this earlier spam run, leading to the Dridex banking trojan.

Malware spam: "British Gas - A/c No. 602131633 - New Account" / trinity [trinity@topsource.co.uk]

This fake financial email is not from TopSource, Trinity Restaurants or British Gas (the email seems a bit confused), but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.

From:    trinity [trinity@topsource.co.uk]
Date:    22 December 2015 at 10:36
Subject:    British Gas - A/c No. 602131633 - New Account

Hi ,

Please refer to the attached invoice from British Gas, the account number on it is different from all the account numbers that we currently have in the system. Can you confirm if this is a new account so that we will create this in system.

Thanks & Regards,

Pallavi Parvatkar

Trinity Restaurants Accounts Team | TopSource Global Solutions | 020 3002 6203
4th Floor | Marlborough House | 10 Earlham Street | London WC2H 9LN | www.topsource.co.uk

                                                                  
                                                                                               

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British Gas.doc 92K

Attached is a file British Gas.doc with an MD5 a VirusTotal detection rate of 2/54. Analysis of the document is pending, however it will most likely drop the Dridex banking trojan.

UPDATE

These automated analyses [1] [2] show that the malicious document downloads from:

weddingme.net/786h8yh/87t5fv.exe

This has a VirusTotal detection rate of 3/54.  All those reports indicate malicious traffic to:

199.7.136.88 (Megawire, Canada)
151.80.142.33 (OVH, France)

The payload looks like Dridex.

MD5s:
cacb79e05cf54490a7067aa1544083fa
c8694f1573a01b8b2cb7b1b502eb9372

Recommended blocklist:
199.7.136.88
151.80.142.33

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

Malware spam: "Your new PHS documents are attached" / "PHSOnline [documents@phsonline.co.uk]"

This convincing-looking fake financial email does not come from PHS, but is instead a simple forgery with a a malicious attachment:

From:    PHSOnline [documents@phsonline.co.uk]
Date:    17 December 2015 at 11:48
Subject:    Your new PHS documents are attached

Delivery of new PHS document(s)     Dear Customer   Due to a temporary issue with delivering your document(s) via your online account, please find the attached in DOC format for your convenience.   We apologize for you being unable to view your accounts and documents online in the usual manner. Please note that, in the interim, we will continue to deliver documents in this manner until the issue is fully resolved.   Regards   PHS Group   To ensure that you continue receiving our emails, please add documents@phsonline.co.uk to your address book or safe list.     Contact us Connect with PHS:       This email was sent by Personnel Hygiene Services Limited - a member of the PHS Group. This company is registered in England & Wales to the address: PHS Group, Block B, Western Ind Estate, Caerphilly CF83 1XH. Company Reg No: 05384799 VAT No: GB542951438

G-A0287580036267754265.xls 70K

Effectively, this is a re-run of this spam from October.

I have only seen a single sample of this. There is a malicious Excel document attached, G-A0287580036267754265.xls with a VirusTotal detection rate of 4/54. According to the Malwr report this attempts to download a binary from:

infosystems-gmbh.de/65dfg77/kmn653.exe

At present, this download location 404s but other versions of the document will probably have different download locations.  The payload is the Dridex banking trojan, as seen several times today [1] [2] [3] [4].

Malware spam: "Required your attention" leads to Teslacrypt

This spam email has a malicious attachment:

From:    Brittany Quinn
Date:    17 December 2015 at 10:52
Subject:    Required your attention

Dear Partner,

As per your request, we have made special prices for you, which leave us only a very small margin.

Kindly find attached the prices with your personal discount, and if you need anything else, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Our best wishes, The sales team

The sender's name varies from email to email, as does the name of the attachment but it in a format similar to SCAN_PRICES_01106759.zip. Contained within is a malicious obfuscated Javascript with a detection rate of 6/54 which is a bit clear when deobfuscated, and it downloads from:

whatdidyaysay.com/97.exe?1
iamthewinnerhere.com/97.exe?1

This has a detection rate of 3/53. Automated analysis is inconclusive [1] [2] but this is Teslacrypt and is likely to be similar in characteristics to this spam run.

Malware spam: "Your Latest Right Fuel Card Invoice is Attached" / "Right Fuel Card Company [invoice@rightfuelcard.co.uk]"

This fake financial email is not from Right Fuel Card Company but is instead a simple forgery with a malicious attachment.

From:    Right Fuel Card Company [invoice@rightfuelcard.co.uk]
Date:    17 December 2015 at 11:11
Subject:    Your Latest Right Fuel Card Invoice is Attached


Please find attached your latest invoice.

PLEASE ALSO NOTE OUR NEW OPENING HOURS ARE:
Monday - Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 3pm

For a copy of our latest Terms & Conditions please visit www.rightfuelcard.co.uk

Should you have any queries please do not hesitate to call us on 0845 625 0153 (Calls to this number cost 5 pence per minute plus your telephone company's access charge) or via email to info@rightfuelcard.co.uk.

Regards

Customer Services
The Right Fuelcard Company Limited

Attached is a file A01CardInv1318489.xls - at present I only have a single sample of this. VirusTotal is down at the moment so I cannot tell you the detection rate. The Malwr analysis shows behaviour consistent with several Dridex runs going on this morning, with a download from:

infosystems-gmbh.de/65dfg77/kmn653.exe

The payload is the Dridex banking trojan, and is identical to the payload here, here and here.