Malware spam: "Corresponding Invoice" leads to Locky

This spam has a malicious attachment, probably leading to Locky ransomware:

From:    Althea Duke
Date:    22 June 2016 at 16:00
Subject:    Corresponding Invoice

Dear lisa:

Thank you for your email regarding your order of 21 June, and sorry for the delay in replying. I am
writing to confirm receipt of your order, and to inform you that the item you requested will be delivered
by 25 June at the latest. If you require more information regarding this order, please do not hesitate to
contact me.

Also, our records show that we have not yet received payment for the previous order of 11 June,
so I would be grateful if you could send payment as soon as possible. Please find attached the
corresponding invoice.

If there is anything else you require, our company would be pleased to help. Looking forward to
hearing from you soon.

Yours sincerely

Althea Duke
Managing Director

Who the message is "from" varies from message to message, but the body text is the same. Analysis of the payload is pending, but it is probably similar to yesterday's Locky run.

UPDATE

A little bit of analysis, via these automated reports [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] show some download locations as:

personal-architecture.nl/6gcpaey
ding-a-ling-tel.com/b289dg
plasticsmachine.com/d43ndxna
hyip-all.com/9qwmc65

Various files are dropped, including these samples [6] [7] the latter of which is a three week old version of Locky. Go figure. The comments in this report show C2 servers at:

51.254.240.48 (Andrey Orlov aka Relink LLC, Russia / OVH, France)
91.219.29.41 (FLP Kochenov Aleksej Vladislavovich aka uadomen.com, Ukraine)
185.82.216.55 (ITL, Bulgaria)
93.170.169.188 (PE Dunaeivskyi Denys Leonidovich, Ukraine)

Three out of those four servers are the same as yesterday.

Recommended blocklist:
51.254.240.48
91.219.29.41
185.82.216.55
93.170.169.188

Malware spam: "Please find attached our invoice for services rendered and additional disbursements in the above-mentioned matter."

This malicious spam leads to Locky ransomware, something that we haven't seen for several weeks:

From:    Lilian Fletcher
Date:    21 June 2016 at 20:01
Subject:    Re:

Dear lisa:

Please find attached our invoice for services rendered and additional disbursements in the above-
mentioned matter.

Hoping the above to your satisfaction, we remain.

Sincerely,
Lilian Fletcher
Head of Maintenance

These are being sent out in huge numbers at the moment. Details vary from message to message, but the body text is essentially the same. Attached is a ZIP file containing the words addition, invoice or services plus the recipients email address and a number (e.g. lisa_addition_278292.zip) containing a malicious script beginning with the word "addition".

A trusted third-party analysis (thank you, you know who you are) shows download locations at:

204.232.192.84/abjvucr
akdenizozalit.com/ixoxi
allchannel.net/lue6c4
aloprint.com/bk0f2
arabian-star.com/nay7jq7
beluxfurniture.com/0jcxx
cbactive.com/1sdfs
clerici.info/g1sd5d59
depaardestal.nl/z5htsm
ding-a-ling-tel.com/bazk3kao
easysupport.us/fl85xie
ekonova.nazwa.pl/wc0coj
ft.dol.za.pl/ymsikgp7
fuji-mig.com/awcigpa1
futuretech-iq.net/koqpy
handicraftmag.com/mrihc
heavenboundministry.com/i7a59qj
hrlpk.com/s5ibqz1
hyip-all.com/9qwmc65
iminlife.com/cqoanbzr
infocuscreative.net/didt48j
innatesynergy.com/mrgdve3
jasoncoroy.com/szlzqni
kitchenconceptagra.com/5s9xb7j
komplettraeder-24.de/w61qx92
marxforschung.de/tt18a
modelestrazackie.za.pl/zfww8nx
otolocphat.com/bv2n241r
passagegoldtravel.com/bqugo3qb
pawelbuczynski.za.pl/z1q8u
percorsipsicoarte.com/6gz707c
pub-voiture.com/dcsjrjm
racedayworld.com/808k8pd
reginamargherita96.net/hhtvomcw
rzezba-bierowiec.za.pl/y7fbo1a
samrhamburg.com/jrh9b
scpremiumbikes.com/3y1b0n4s
searchforamy.com/1fz0k9kp
stbb.pt/z59ifwj
stckwt.net/p4jlk
testfacility.awsome.pl/zc73v
totalsportnetwork.com/kpbrp2mq
ugmp.nazwa.pl/xkhhf2n
unitedprogamers.za.pl/ylxt67
vantagenetsvc.com/a7xssz
vinabuhmwoo.com/69udv
wasearch.us/6mm3hk
wbksis.com/5mxl28il
yourworshipspace.com/a3py3w

Analysis by those parties shows that it phones home to:

51.254.240.48 (Andrey Orlov aka Relink LLC, Russia / OVH, France)
91.219.29.41 (FLP Kochenov Aleksej Vladislavovich aka uadomen.com, Ukraine)
185.82.216.55 (ITL, Bulgaria)
217.12.223.83 (ITL, Ukraine)

As I mentioned before, this is Locky ransomware which has not been circulating at all since about 31st May.

Recommended blocklist:
51.254.240.48
91.219.29.41
185.82.216.55
217.12.223.83

Spam: Dr Happy's Terrorism Conference

Fake conferences are a pretty common scam. The criminals send out spam about serious-looking upcoming conferences that don't exist and then rip victims off for travel costs, conference fees and hotel accommodation. This spam about a fake conference about terrorism caught my eye because it comes from the amusingly named (but fake) Dr Happy Wisdom:

From:    Dr. Happy [shreyag@bajajcapital.com]
Reply-To:    "Dr. Happy" [iedhsto.officedesk@gmail.com]
Date:    15 June 2016 at 23:24
Subject:    INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2016

Dear Sir/Madam,

 On behalf of the International Economic Development on Human Security and Terrorism Organization, I am pleased to invite you to our conference that will be held from August 15th to 19th, 2016 @ the conference place in Dallas Texas USA and August 22nd-26th 2016 @ in Dakar Senegal. The conference meeting will contain various talks and mini workshops related to the issues of Challenges to Economic Development & Human Security in our society.

The topic of the conference is "The Effect of Terrorism on Global Economy and Human Security " the sponsors of this event shall cover your round-trip air tickets from your country to the USA and from USA to Dakar Senegal back to your country and we shall also provide visa assistance with the U.S Embassy in your country of residence and your ground transportation from the airport to the conference venue. The hotel accommodation booking cost will be your own responsibility in Republic of Senegal. Please contact the conference secretariat for more information and registration for participation: [iedhsto.officedesk@gmail.com].

We look forward to your confirmed presence at the conference.

Respectfully Yours,

Dr. Happy Wisdom,

Program Assistant.

The email does actually originate from an IP address in Senegal (41.82.15.40) but then it is routed through a hacked server belonging to the domain bajajcapital.com which is a finance company in India. The compromise email account can be seen in the "From" field.

At best this scam is some sort of financial fraud. At worst, turning up to it could put your life in danger. Avoid.

Malware spam: ". CARTÓRIO POSTAL. Apontamento de Protesto. 10/06/2016 17:42:46"

This Portuguese-language spam leads to malware:

From:    formacion@salesianos-madrid.com
Date:    10 June 2016 at 21:42
Subject:    . CARTÓRIO POSTAL. Apontamento de Protesto. 10/06/2016 17:42:46

Levamos ao conhecimento de V. Sa. que se acha devidamente protocolado neste Tabelionato, para ser protestado, o título abaixo anexado.

Lei nº 9.492 de 10 setembro de 1997.
Art. 12. O protesto será registrado dentro de três dias úteis contados da protocolização do título ou documento de dívida.
§ 1º Na contagem do prazo a que se refere o caput exclui-se o dia da protocolização e inclui-se o do vencimento.

Favor comparecer munido deta intimação, no horário das 8:00h às 17:00h


Atenciosamente,Liliane peixoto.

The link in the email message in this case goes to:

www.sugarsync.com/pf/D3259546_878_449109824?directDownload=3Dtrue

This downloads an executable PROTESTO.exe with a VirusTotal detection rate of 15/56. Automated analysis [1] [2] [3] shows it dropping a further executable OViLQKDS.exe which has a detection rate of 16/56. Analysis of that is inconclusive [4] [5] [6] is inconclusive, but it looks like some kind of information stealer.

Malware spam: "David Bernard agent Fedex" / "Secure-FeDex" leads to Andromeda

This fake FedEx (or FeDex?) spam has a malicious attachment:

From:    Secure-FeDex
Date:    8 June 2016 at 18:17
Subject:    David Bernard agent Fedex

Deаr [redacted] ,
We tried tо delivеr уour item on June 08th, 2016, 10:45 АM.
The delivеry attempt failеd because thе аddress was business сlоsed оr nobodу сould sign fоr it.
Тo piсk up the package, please, рrint the receipt that is аttаchеd to this еmаil and visit FеdEx
office indicated in the invoice. If the pасkagе is nоt piсkеd up within 24 hоurs, it will bе returnеd to thе shipper.

 

Receipt Number:  98402839289
Eхpесted Delivеrу Dаte: June 08th, 2016
Class: Intеrnаtional Paсkаge Sеrviсe
Servicе(s): Delivеrу Cоnfirmation
Status: Notifiсatiоn sent

 

Thank you for choosing our service

 

 

©  FedEх  1995-2016

In this case there was an attachment FedEx_track_98404283928.zip which unzipped into a folder FedEx_track_98404283928 containing in turn a malicious script FedEx_track_98404283928.js which (according to Malwr) attempts to download a binary from one of the following locations:

www.brusasport.com/Brusa/vario/direct/teamviiverupdate2918372.exe
www.microsoft.com/Brusa/vario/direct/teamviiverupdate2918372.exe
www.mega.net/Brusa/vario/direct/teamviiverupdate2918372.exe
www.google.com/Brusa/vario/direct/teamviiverupdate2918372.exe
www.yahoo.com/Brusa/vario/direct/teamviiverupdate2918372.exe

Only the first one is a valid download location, the rest are a smokescreen. The dropped binary has a detection rate of 5/56 but automated analysis [1] [2] [3] is inconclusive. However those reports do seem to indicate attempted network traffic to:

secure.adnxs.metalsystems.it
upfd.pilenga.co.uk

These two subdomains appears to have been hijacked from unrelated Register.IT customers and are hosted on a questionable-looking customer of OVH Italy on 188.165.157.176:

organisation:   ORG-NQ1-RIPE
org-name:       Kitdos NOC
org-type:       OTHER
address:        UNKNOW
address:        UNKNOW UNKNOW
address:        US
e-mail:         kitdos.com@gmail.com
abuse-mailbox:  kitdos.com@gmail.com
phone:          +33.188866688
mnt-ref:        OVH-MNT
mnt-by:         OVH-MNT
created:        2016-02-04T03:22:05Z
last-modified:  2016-02-23T13:14:14Z
source:         RIPE

Other hijacked subdomains on the same IP are:

tgr.tecnoagenzia.eu
bmp.pilenga.co.uk
maps.pilenga.co.uk
sundication.twitter.luigilatruffa.com
tit.pilenga.net
trw.pilenga.net
ocsp.pilenga.net
plda.pilenga.net
maps.pilenga.mobi
plda.pilenga.mobi

This Tweet from ‏@pancak3lullz indicates that this IP is associated with Anrdomeda rather than the usual recent patterns of Locky or Dridex (which has.. err.. dried up recently). It appears to have been a malicious IP for more than a month.

Of interest is that almost every part of this chain (including the spam sending IP of 31.27.229.22) is in Italy.

As with a great deal of recent spam, this is delivered via a .js script in a ZIP file. If you can configure your mail filters to reject such things then you will be a whole lot safer.

Recommended blocklist:
188.165.157.176/30

Malware spam: "Good morning" résumé spam drops Cerber ransomware and makes a statement

This fake résumé spam leads to malware:

From:    Dora Bain
Date:    7 June 2016 at 03:37
Subject:    Good morning

What's Up?
I visited your website today..
I'm currently looking for work either full time or as a intern to get experience in the field.
Please look over my CV and let me know what you think.

With gratitude,

--
Dora Bain

In the sample I saw, the attached file was named Dora-Resume.doc and had a VirusTotal detection rate of 11/56. The Malwr report and Hybrid Analysis show that a script executes that tries to make a political statement along the way..

This downloads a file from 80.82.64.198/subid1.exe which is then saved as %APPDATA%\us_drones_kills_civilians.exe  which VirusTotal gives a detection rate of 20/56 and seems to give an overall diagnosis as being Cerber ransomware.

The IP address of 80.82.64.198 is allocated to an apparent Seychelles shell company called Quasi Networks Ltd (which is probably Russian). There seems to be little if anything of value in 80.82.64.0/24 which could be a good candidate to block. Incidentally, the IP hosts best-booters.com which is likely to be a DDOS-for-hire site.

According to the VT report the malware scans for a response on port 6892 on the IP addresses 85.93.0.0 through to 85.93.63.255. However, this Hybrid Analysis indicates that the only server to respond is on 85.93.0.124 (GuardoMicro SRL, Romania) which is part of the notoriously bad 85.93.0.0/24 which is a good thing to block.

That report also shows traffic to ipinfo.io which is a legitimate "what is my IP" service. While not malicious in its own right, it does make a potentially good indicator of compromise.

Recommended blocklist:
80.82.64.0/24
85.93.0.0/24

Malware spam: "New Company Order" / "ABC Import & Export,LLC"

This fake financial spam leads to malware:

From:    accounting@abcimportexport.com
Reply-To:    userworldz@yahoo.com
To:    Recipients [accounting@abcimportexport.com]
Date:    31 May 2016 at 12:31
Subject:    New Company Order

Good Day,

Find the attached specifications in the purchase order for our company mid year order & projects before sending your Proforma Invoice and do get back to me with your quotations asap.
An Official order placement will follow as soon as possible.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD & VIEW PURCHASE ORDER IF DOESNT WORK THEN CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD SECURE PURCHASE ORDER 

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4dcdbc9b7e95edf6788be6723/files/scan_purchase_orders.zip
Attention! This document was created with a newer version of Microsoft Word.. Please click Enable Content or Macro to view the content of our order

Best Regards,
Ameen La Binish

Purchasing Dept

ABC Import & Export,LLC 2534 Royal Lane
Suite # 205
Dallas,Texas 75229
USA
Toll Free : 1-800-666-5874
Office Main Line : 1-214-966-2627
Office Reception : 1-214-985-1696
Fax : 1-972-243-7275
Email: Sales@abcimportexports.co
Website: http://abcimportexport.com

This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited.

The link in the email message goes to gallery.mailchimp.com/4dcdbc9b7e95edf6788be6723/files/scan_purchase_orders.zip . This contains a malicious executable scan purchase orders.exe which has a detection rate of 3/56. That VirusTotal report and these other analyses [1] [2] [3] shows network traffic to:

185.5.175.211 (Voxility SRL, Romania)

This executable drops another similar EXE [4] [5] [6] [7] which phones home to the same IP. Between them, these reports indicate some sort of keylogger. There seems to be little of anything of value in this /24, so I would recommend blocking 185.5.175.0/24

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Malware spam: "You have 1 new message from bank manager. To read it, please open the attachment down below. "

This fake financial spam has a malicious attachment:

From:    Lanna Weall
Date:    31 May 2016 at 12:18
Subject:    New Message from your bank manager

You have 1 new message from bank manager. To read it, please open the attachment down below. 

In the sample I saw there was an attachment see_it_77235678.zip containing a malicious script warning_letter_Bdrh5W.js (detection rate 4/57) and the Malwr analysis of that sample shows that it downloads a binary from:

pvprojekt.pl/oLlqvX

The dropped binary is Locky ransomware with a detection rate of 4/56. All those reports plus these analyses [1] [2] [3] show network traffic to:

85.17.19.102 (Leaseweb, Netherlands)
195.154.69.90 (Iliad Entreprises, France)
93.170.123.60 (PE Gornostay Mikhailo Ivanovich / time-host.net, Ukraine)

A trusted source (thank you) indicated that there was a earlier Locky campaign today with the following donwload locations:

101consult.com/zZVPJj
adrianschubert.pl/7s56K8
affinityee.com/jkpziP
akcord.com/R4yjhg
alex-makhinin.ru/hPBy2R
altezzatrio.com/aAS841
amande-concerts.de/LNfOKy
amansur.com/sJIEQB
andresvazquez.net/1UaAWY
arajinqayler.com/V8lL2k
asworkstation.com/1Cq0Kk
baidainhatrang.xyz/bA2xZO
balifashion.ru/FMGbdV
belov24.ru/1msPTS
bestplumbersindallas.com/UZmYow
betulbasol.com/jmS4ts
bitcoinprservices.com/4Xc6Fy
canale78.it/I52NbK
c-a-r.at/QSa8sI
fm2030.us/BznLrm
handmee.com/hIPTXx
jestempiotr.pl/IiJlGp
kickoff.ru/WNwvki
kontarkum.org/Lntxhy
ktistakis.com/UHqig6
kvarcevaya-lampa.ru/fC9qZW
kwweb.it/tNTjZ2
ladohumano.cl/bnmYOE
leatherberryconsulting.com/gXTND7
lidgroup.ru/vV9c7l
lizdion.net/9cRXIl
makarenkostyle.net/IJlEqC
marca-ce.com/n859VM
maridadiproperties.com/pQIJGB
mckinleyhigh.org/lhAfaC
metakino.ru/onryuE
metaldesign.info/o12QeD
minutemanpress-randburg.co.za/UXJnqs
most.org.mk/oiNWQ0
muslimdate.com/mlB3PW
noplacelikejones.com/hati3x
norisys.com/EwX0sO
nwa-dizel.ru/D8kTfA
ohmyg-o-d.info/Ns4gf5
pasit.heutagon.com/PyG0Oc
pgcommunitycab.com/FAlx1b
polibloki.ru/nbTURt
primeautoglass.co.nz/wMcW5Z
puliziafacile.it/JvZ9cX
pvprojekt.pl/oLlqvX
quotidianieriviste.com/WIKuLk
redcurrantjobs.co.uk/9cgwZ5
revista.motociclismo.es/4HgJ7t
riobrancoperu.org/B3AlqT
rockmind.pl/bg6kKf
rotaharita.com/5NmH3b
sanariumspb.ru/Xm9xul

Recommended blocklist:
85.17.19.102
195.154.69.90
93.170.123.60

Malware spam: "As per our discussion yesterday, please find attached the amended meeting minutes."

This spam leads to Locky ransomware:

From:    Meagan Branch
Date:    27 May 2016 at 12:35
Subject:    Information request


Dear [redacted],

As per our discussion yesterday, please find attached the amended meeting minutes.
I have accepted the majority of the changes requested, however there are some that I have left in the document.
I have included the edits as track changes.

Please confirm that the changes we have made are acceptable.

Many thanks


Regards,

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Meagan Branch
Phone: +1 (620) 980-41-94

The senders vary from email to email. Attached is a ZIP file with a malicious script, which in the examples that I have found downloads one of a variety of malicious executables [1] [2] [3] [4] which call home to the same IP addresses found in this earlier spam run.

Malware spam: "Neue Abrechnung Nr. 746441" / support@sipcall.de

This German-language spam has a malicious attachment:

From:    support@sipcall.de
Date:    27 May 2016 at 10:57
Subject:    Neue Abrechnung Nr. 746441


Guten Tag

Im Anhang erhalten Sie die neue Rechnung des vergangenen Monates mit der Abrechnungsnummer 746441.

Für eine fristgerechte Bezahlung danken wir Ihnen. Bei Fragen oder Anregungen steht Ihnen unser Kundendienst gerne zur Verfügung.


Freundliche Grüsse
Ihr VoIP Provider


Dies ist eine automatisch generierte Nachricht. Antworten auf diese E-Mail können nicht bearbeitet werden.

Reference numbers vary. Attached is a randomly-named Word document (e.g. INV842038-746441.docm). The sample I submitted to Malwr showed it downloading a binary from:

www.ding-a-ling-tel.com/98yh87nb6v4

Other sources indicate additional download locations at:

egadget.ru/98yh87nb6v4
www.samrhamburg.com/98yh87nb6v4
bridgeplacements.com/98yh87nb6v4
birlesimsucuklari.com/98yh87nb6v4
ecpi.ro/98yh87nb6v4
wondervalley.in/98yh87nb6v4
acnek.com/98yh87nb6v4
cacpa.org/98yh87nb6v4
cobrebactericida.org/98yh87nb6v4
greenwfms.com/98yh87nb6v4
iwebmediasavvy.com/98yh87nb6v4
projectodetalhe.pt/98yh87nb6v4
renaudsfurniture.ca/98yh87nb6v4
saintkatherine.orthodoxy.ru/98yh87nb6v4
www.orchidealito.it/98yh87nb6v4

There are probably other locations too.

An executable is dropped with a detection rate of 3/56. The Hybrid Analysis and DeepViz report both indicate different phone-home locations:

193.9.28.13 (FLP Kochenov Aleksej Vladislavovich / uadomen.com, Ukraine)
5.152.199.70 (Redstation, UK)

Private sources also indicate C2s at:

212.109.219.31 (JSC Server, Russia)
107.181.187.12 (Total Server Solutions, US)

The payload is Locky ransomware.

Recommended blocklist:
193.9.28.13
5.152.199.70
212.109.219.31
107.181.187.12

Phish: "Final PO Contract..xlsx"

This spam email is phishing for email credentials. Unlike some, this one seems to be quite well done and might convince unsuspecting people that it is genuine.

From:    M Tufail Shakir [admin@ebookmalls.com]
Date:    27 May 2016 at 08:42
Subject:    Re: Final PO Contract..xlsx

Please see below attachment for the final signed contract

Regards,
27-05-2016

Tom Yip | Regional Sales Team | Marchon Eyewear (HK) Ltd.
Room 1503-05, 15/F, One Island South, 2 Heung Yip Road, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
P: (852) 2814 6674  |  tyip@marchon.com

From: Marites [villaventures@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 2:15 PM
To: [redacted]
Cc: Jeff Lam; Swallow Yeung
Subject: SF and CE Contract

Final Contact Statement.xlsx    1 file (Total 387.5 KB)    View | Download

The link in this email goes to:

cagselectrical.com.au/libraries/emb/excel/excel/index.php?email=[redacted]

This gives a pretty convincing looking facsimile of an Excel spreadsheet, prompting for credentials..

Entering any combination of username and password seems to work, then you get redirected to a GIF of a spreadsheet..

Curiously, this GIF is not part of a phishing site but is on a wholly legitimate site belonging to a software company called Aspera (you can see it here):

download.asperasoft.com/download/docs/console/2.0/linux/html/images/console/console-report-ex1-xls.gif

The asperasoft.com domain is NOT involved in the phishing nor has it been compromised. As ever, I would advise you not to explore links like this as they might lead to an exploit kit or malware, and bear in mind that some phishing pages are better than others, and this is one of the more convincing ones that I have seen recently.

Malware spam: "Please find attached a document containing our responses to the other points which we discussed.."

This spam appears to come from different companies and senders, and has a malicious attachment:

From:    Sara Osborne
Date:    26 May 2016 at 10:53
Subject:    RE:

Dear sales,

Please find attached a document containing our responses to the other points which we
discussed on Monday 23th May.

Please let me know if you have any queries


Regards,

Wayfair Inc.

Sara Osborne

Attached is a ZIP file (the ones I have seen so far all begin with responses_) which contains a malicious script name in a similar way to employees -382-.js. These have a typical detection rate of 4/56.

Two samples analysed by Malwr [1] [2] show download locations from:

newgeneration2010.it/mkc27f
projectodetalhe.pt/do5j36a

There will be many other download locations too. These drop two different binaries (VirusTotal results [3] [4]). Those two VT results plus these two DeepViz analyses [5] [6] show the malware phoning home to:

138.201.93.46 (Hetzner, Germany)
107.181.187.12 (Total Server Solutions, US)
212.109.219.31 (JSC Server, Russia)
5.152.199.70 (Redstation, UK)

This behaviour is consistent with Locky ransomware.

Recommended blocklist:
138.201.93.46
107.181.187.12
212.109.219.31
5.152.199.70

Phish: "Please find attached telegraphic transfer copy for payment made to your account today."

At first glance this spam looks like malware, but it appears to be a phish instead:

From:    General trading ltd [info@7studio.co]
Date:    26 May 2016 at 05:04
Subject:    Payment

Dear Sir/Ma'am!

As requested by our customer
Please find attached telegraphic transfer copy for payment made to your account today.

Kindly confirm once you received this payment.

Regards

Muhammad Farooq
Exchange Manager,
MCB New Garden Exchange
U.A.E (1080)
Contact: 971-35866698 - 03004278636

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Disclaimer:

This E-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies from your system and notify the sender immediately by return E-mail. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be timely, secure, error or virus-free. MCB Bank does not accept liability for any errors or omissions.

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Attached is a file TT-USD.pdf .. as a rule I would recommend not opening PDF files or other attachments from unknown sources. When you open the file it looks like this:

Yes, it does look that blurry. The enticement here is to click the link in the document, which is something I wouldn't recommend that you do because it could lead to a malicious download, exploit kit or in this case a simple phishing page hosted on poloimport2012.com.

This seems to be phishing for general webmail credentials. Of course, once a hacker has those they can use your account to send spam or even rifle through your private emails and reset passwords and gain access to other important accounts.

Signing in with any credentials appears to fail, but of course the bad guys have just harvested your password..

As I said, I don't recommend opening files like this and clicking links to see where they go. I use a test environment to do this, but some similar spam emails can deliver malware that will silently plant itself on your computer which can be even more dangerous than this phish.

Malware spam: "Weekly report" / "Please find attached the Weekly report."

This fake financial spam comes from random senders and companies and has a malicious attachment:

From:    Alicia Ramirez
Date:    25 May 2016 at 14:22
Subject:    Weekly report

Hi [redacted],


Please find attached the Weekly report.


King regards,

Alicia Ramirez
Castle (A.M.) & Co.

There are a large number of these, with a ZIP file attached containing a malicious scripts with a typical detection rate of 3/56. In this sample Malwr analysis, it downloads a file from:

test.glafuri.net/yxk6s

There will certainly be a LOT of other download locations. The dropped file GSKQtcnNu8MS.exe has a detection rate of 4/55 and that same VirusTotal report indicates C2 traffic to:

138.201.93.46 (Hetzner, Germany)
91.200.14.139 (PP SKS-LUGAN, Ukraine)
104.131.182.103 (Digital Ocean, US)
164.132.40.47 (OVH, France)

Even though other automated analysis failed [1] [2] this time we have previously identified two of those IPs as being Locky ransomware, so there is little doubt that this will be more of the same.

Recommended blocklist:
138.201.93.46
91.200.14.139
104.131.182.103
164.132.40.47

Malware spam: "URGENT - DELIVERY" / "Jobin Jacob / "HYTEX"

This fake delivery spam leads to malware:

From:    Justin harmon
Date:    25 May 2016 at 12:30
Subject:    URGENT - DELIVERY

Dear customer.

Please find the attachment.


--
Thanks & Best Regards


Jobin Jacob
HYTEX
Ph: +974-44506682
Mob:+974-70400514,55129954

Attached is a ZIP file that contains one of many scripts that downloads a binary from one of the following locations (according to a trusted third party, thank you!):

avi-vest.ro/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
bankruptcymag.com/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
bizconsulting.ro/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
brunohenrique.net/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
cjglobal.co/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
comecomunicare.eu/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
crimeshurt.com/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
digitacaoveloz.com.br/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
globalcredithub.com/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
lifeclinics.net/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
orobos.nyc/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
selonija.lv/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
smp.com.mx/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
sweethomesgroup.com/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
tspipp.tsu.tula.ru/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
unijovem.com.br/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]
www.appoutpost.com/3g34t3t4tggrt?[random-string]=[random-string]

Where [random-string] seems to be a random alphanumeric string. The dropped binary is Locky ransomware (as seen in this Malwr report) which phones home to:

164.132.40.47 (OVH, France)
104.131.182.103 (Digital Ocean, US)

These are the same C2 servers as found here.

Malware spam: "Operational Expense" leads to Locky

This fake financial spam leads to malware:

From:    Theodora Hamer
Date:    25 May 2016 at 12:17
Subject:    Operational Expense

Operational Expense of 7,350,80 USD has been credited from your account. For more details please refer to the report that can be found down below 

This analysis is based on a trusted source (thank you!). Attached is a ZIP file containing a malicious script, downloading from:

alborzcrane.com/g1slEn.exe
alborzcrane.com/Z94n5r.exe
alintagranito.com/fOA8Bl.exe
alintagranito.com/xB7nku.exe
amazoo.com.br/R0koId.exe
avayeparseh.com/s0faxS.exe
buzzimports.com.au/cRQVC4.exe
buzzimports.com.au/ECScwi.exe
galabel.com/lRkuJX.exe
galabel.com/oQz26K.exe
jett.com/6APaSk.exe
kitchen38.com/HYPETS.exe
kitchen38.com/V1ygc2.exe
onestopcableshop.com/J7t6au.exe
osdc.eu/gct5TH.exe
osdc.eu/n2UuEj.exe
purfectcar.com/9OaoqM.exe
purfectcar.com/sHXqZT.exe
wisebuy.com/WiOqzB.exe
yearnjewelry.com/OnvBrc.exe
yearnjewelry.com/t8HnK3.exe
zhaoyk.com/Dmv3As.exe
zhaoyk.com/JbO9uX.exe

This drops what is apparently Locky ransomware, with a detection rate of 3/56. This phones home to:

164.132.40.47 (OVH, France)
104.131.182.103 (Digital Ocean, US)

This Hybrid Analysis shows the Locky ransomware in action.

Recommended blocklist:
164.132.40.47
104.131.182.103

Malware spam: "Following the phone conversation with the accounting department represantatives I'm sending you the invoices."

These fake financial spams come from different companies, all with a malicious attachment.

From:    Frank.ClaraZO@pr-real.com
Date:    25 May 2016 at 11:34
Subject:    The invoices from INCHCAPE PLC


Hello,
Following the phone conversation with the accounting department represantatives I'm sending you the invoices.

Thank you for attention,
Kind regards
Clara Frank
INCHCAPE PLC
tel. (2045)/641493 54

> Sent from Iphone

Attached is a ZIP file with a name similar to Invoice 5044-032841.zip which in turn contains a malicious script named in a similar manner to invoice(677454).js which typically has a detection rate of 3/56. Hybrid Analysis of that sample shows the script creating a PFX (personal certificate) file which is then transformed into a PIF (executable) file using the certutil.exe application.

This PIF file itself has a detection rate of 6/56 but automated analysis [1] [2] [3] is inconclusive. The behaviour is somewhat consistent with the Dridex banking trojan but may possibly be Locky ransomware.

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

--------------

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

Phish: "TNT Consignment Notification" via rit.edu

This fake TNT notification is phishing for credentials:

From:    TNT Express
Reply-To:    sh3llsh0p@yahoo.com
Date:    24 May 2016 at 11:34
Subject:    TNT Consignment Notification

Attention: [redacted],

TNT is pleased to advise you that ANTONIOU KONSTANTINOS has arranged for a shipment to be collected from them on May 23, 2016 , and delivered to You on 275th May 2016.
The shipment has a TNT CONSIGNMENT NOTE NUMBER: 119138390

To be able to check the status of the shipment simply visit or click below to track.



http://www.tnt.com/webtracker/tracking.do?navigation=1&searchType=CON&respLang=en&respCountry=GENERIC&genericSiteIdent=.&cons=119138390


From :
ANTONIOU KONSTANTINOS
Theokritou 5
THESSALONIKI
THESSALONIKIS
546 27
GR

Pieces : 1
Weight : 0.5 KG
Shipment reference :
Description : sample
If you would like to find out about the many ways TNT helps you to track your shipment, or if you would like to know more about the services provided by TNT, simply connect to www.tnt.com and select your location at any time.


---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure.
If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system.
If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person.
Please consider the environmental impact before printing this document and its attachment(s). Print black and white and double-sided where possible.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The link in the email is disguised to make it look like a link to tnt.com, but in face it goes to:

heurica.dk/tnt1/?email=[redacted]

which then forwards to

booking-smart-swim-school.co.uk/images/TNT/index.php?rand=13InboxLightaspxn.1774256418&fid&1252899642&fid.1&fav.1&email=[redacted]

This URLquery report shows what is going on, as the victim ends up on a laughably fake phishing page:

Presumably this is phishing for general email credentials rather than a TNT login. Orignating IP is 87.106.178.108 (1&1, Germany) via an apparently compromised account or server at pmdf01b.rit.edu

Evil network: OVH / kaminskiy@radiologist.net

Here's an Angler EK cluster, hosted on multiple ranges rented from OVH France.. working first from this list of Angler IPs in OVH address space we can see a common factor.

5.135.249.214
5.135.249.215
51.255.59.119
51.255.59.120
51.255.59.121
51.255.59.123
91.134.206.128
91.134.206.129
91.134.206.130
91.134.206.131
91.134.204.217
91.134.204.218
91.134.204.219
91.134.204.243
91.134.204.245
91.134.204.247

One handy thing that OVH does with suballocated ranges is give clear details about the customer. This certainly helps track down abusers. In this case, the ranges these IPs are in are allocated to:

organisation:   ORG-KM91-RIPE
org-name:       Kaminskiy Mark
org-type:       OTHER
address:        Bema 73
address:        01-244 Warszawa
address:        PL
e-mail:         kaminskiy@radiologist.net
abuse-mailbox:  kaminskiy@radiologist.net
phone:          +48.224269043
mnt-ref:        OVH-MNT
mnt-by:         OVH-MNT
created:        2016-05-18T14:46:09Z
last-modified:  2016-05-18T14:46:09Z
source:         RIPE

That ORG-KM91-RIPE reference can be looked up on the RIPE database: giving more of these little /30 blocks:

5.135.249.212/30
51.255.59.116/30
51.255.59.120/30
51.255.59.124/30
91.134.206.128/30
91.134.204.212/30
91.134.204.216/30
91.134.204.220/30
91.134.204.240/30
91.134.204.244/30
91.134.204.248/30
91.134.204.252/30
164.132.223.192/30


OVH have been pretty good at cleaning up this sort of thing lately (unlike PlusServer) so hopefully they will get this under control.

If you want to find other Angler EK ranges then I have a bunch of 'em in my Pastebin.

Malware spam: "Your bank account has been deleted,more information attached. "

This alarming looking spam has a malicious attachment:

From:    Bradyrian Hassell
Date:    23 May 2016 at 14:00
Subject:    Account Deleted

Your bank account has been deleted,more information attached. 

I have only seen a single copy of this and the ZIP file attached was corrupt, however, it is very likely that this is a variant of the Locky ransomware run from earlier today.

Malware spam: "Please find attached the file we spoke about yesterday" leads to Locky

This spam appears to come from random senders, and leads to Locky ransomware:

From:    Graham Roman
Date:    23 May 2016 at 11:59
Subject:    Re:

Hi [redacted]

Please find attached the file we spoke about yesterday.

Thank you,
Graham Roman
PCM, Inc.

Attached is a ZIP file starting with copy_invoice_ and then a random sequence. This contains a malicious script file which in the sample I analysed downloads an obfuscated binary from:

oakidea.com/by2eezw8
islandflavaja.com/0p1nz
dragqueenwig.com/itukabk

Automated analysis of the script [1] [2] shows it dropping a file klA1KMQj2D.exe which has a VirusTotal detection rate of 5/56. Those prior reports plus these additional analyses of the binary [3] [4] [5] show network traffic to:

188.166.168.250 (Digital Ocean, UK)
31.41.44.45 (Relink Ltd, Russia)
92.63.87.53 (MWTV, Latvia)

Those reports all demonstrate clearly that this is Locky ransomware, although the barely encrypted downloaded binaries are a new feature.

UPDATE

Trusted third-party analysis (thank you) shows some additional download locations:

4cornerbazaar.com/rcjmp
ap-shoes.com/r3mkkch
b2cfurniture.com.au/ztydt7
babyhalfoff.com/di286c
bekith.com/twe4puv
canalshopping.com.br/kf5d9
ereganto.com.br/4bxi09t
farmavips.com/hlnl21tf
fina-mente.com/kitrl2
hablatinamerica.com/mkhxrsm
jhplhomedecor.com/m637g
joyofgiving.com.au/1b6v94yu
la-mousson.de/pxwimc
lojaonline.eurobar.pt/kmdb4euf
maibey.com/bakcy9s
metallerie.com/uh0kd
mymy365.com/d7bd2
objetsdinterieur.com/0p1nz
peptide-manufacturer.com/jc6pxks
pro-lnz.com/9ed5v5v
promotionalsales.com.au/0iobfbwc
store.steelalborz.com/fw4i3ssf
stylelk.com/12opjwfh

The MD5s of decrypted downloaded files are:

0cef8d79dd32b5701768ffb3e80dd6c9
18e1591325994d60468e58b30bd47ec7
1e1b9729198cb392636ad4b8ec880284
1eacf23630db85c2af07d2657c1a0917
2742891aff1f20ee09a67d29c5b4157d
2f7373602c67761a1666c3170a0adfd9
4f4d754ffb9b33c5b2b7ec6c38dc6a30
517c1805c2b805a801a6132bfd9d7a69
64eef31dc4cd4dc1ca51b6686e4cdaa1
6fc220a8b95e2167c21d0e1f91a516cb
73552fcfff60a171965103d691679b43
8108de8bf200d4baa62541e9eeca2ee4
9125956e3ee99b9f59b595fcba9ac658
9da331f4353f5b0033c162eb308a8197
a01d60682ad5fadc9018908185e8cde3
aceec3d6334e925297efc8d4232473c2
afd40dca335530ec993d9cf91be96b4c
d69adb50c7f2436f5f7502f22b3a5714
dab81432d4d6241e47d7110b8d051f41
de6c020b8639fda713fbe2285dc6740c
eb3391cefb6634e587b58e0d6540c7c3
fb56f158f6f4c81f7bed2a7c4490fadb

One additional C2 server:

176.31.47.100 (Unihost, Seychelles / OVH , France)

Recommended blocklist:
188.166.168.250
31.41.44.45
92.63.87.53
176.31.47.100

Malware spam: "I wanted to follow up with you about your refund. Please find the attached document" leads to Locky

This spam comes from random senders and has a malicious attachment. Here is an example:

From:    Frederic Spears
Date:    20 May 2016 at 10:29
Subject:    Re:

Hi [redacted],

I wanted to follow up with you about your refund.
Please find the attached document

Regards,
Frederic Spears
CBS Corporation

The company name and sender's name varies from message to message. Attached is a ZIP file which contains elements of the recipient's name, which in turn contains one of a variety of malicious scripts. Out of the samples I have seen, I have so far found download locations of:

delicious-doughnuts.net/oqpkvlam
dev.hartis.org/asvfqh2vn
dugoutdad.com/0ygubbvvm
craftbeerventures.nl/hgyf46sx
babamal.com/av2qavqwv
forshawssalads.co.uk/af1fcqav

Only three of those download locations work so far (VirusTotal results [1] [2] [3]) and automated analysis of those [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] shows behaviour consistent with Locky ransomware. All of those reports show the malware phoning home to:

91.219.29.106 (FLP Kochenov Aleksej Vladislavovich / uadomen.com, Ukraine)
51.254.240.89 (Relink LLC, Russia / OVH, France)
138.201.118.102 (Hetzner, Germany)

Recommended blocklist:
91.219.29.106
51.254.240.89
138.201.118.102

Malware spam: "Per E-Mail senden: DOC0000329040"

This German-language spam comes with a malicious attachment. It appears to come from the victim themselves, but this is just a simple forgery.

From:    victim@victimdomain.tld
Date:    17 May 2016 at 13:28
Subject:    Per E-Mail senden: DOC0000329040

Folgende Dateien oder Links können jetzt als Anlage mit Ihrer Nachricht
gesendet werden:

DOC0000329040

Attached is a ZIP file that matches the reference number in the subject and body text. I have only seen one sample, downloading a binary from:

katyco.net/0uh8nb7

The VirusTotal detection rate is 4/57, the comments in that report indicate that this is Locky ransomware and the C&C servers are at:

188.127.231.124 (SmartApe, Russia)
176.53.21.105 (Radore Veri Merkezi Hizmetleri, Turkey)
217.12.199.151 (ITL, Ukraine)
107.181.174.15 (Total Server Solutions, US)

Recommended blocklist:
188.127.231.124
176.53.21.105
217.12.199.151
107.181.174.15

Malware spam: "I have attached a revised spreadsheet.."

This spam has a malicious attachment:

From:    Britney Hart
Date:    16 May 2016 at 13:15
Subject:    Re:

hi [redacted]

I have attached a revised spreadsheet contains customers. Please check if it's correct

Regards,
Britney Hart

Other variations of the body text seen so far:

I have attached a revised spreadsheet contains general journal entries. Please check if it's correct
I have attached a revised spreadsheet contains estimates. Please check if it's correct

Attached is a ZIP file with three identical malicious .js files. The ones I have seen so far download from

fundaciontehuelche.com.ar/897kjht4g34
thetestserver.net/fg45g4g
technobuz.com/876jh5g4g4

There are probably other download locations. Each one downloads a slightly different binary (VirusTotal prognosis [1] [2] [3]) and automated analysis [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] shows the malware phoning home to:

188.127.231.124 (SmartApe, Russia)
31.184.197.72 (Petersburg Internet Network, Russia)
92.222.71.26 (RunAbove / OVH, France)
149.202.109.202 (Evgenij Rusachenko aka lite-host.in, Russia / OVH, France)

The payload is Locky ransomware.

Recommended blocklist:
188.127.231.124
31.184.197.72
92.222.71.26
149.202.109.202

Malware spam: Emailing: Photo 05-11-2016, 03 26 04

This spam comes with a malicious attachment:

From:    victim@victimdomain.tld
To:    victim@victimdomain.tld
Date:    11 May 2016 at 12:39
Subject:    Emailing: Photo 05-11-2016, 03 26 04

Your message is ready to be sent with the following file or link
attachments:

Photo 05-11-2016, 03 26 04


Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent
sending or receiving certain types of file attachments.  Check your e-mail
security settings to determine how attachments are handled.

It appears to come from the sender's own email address, but this is a simple forgery (explained here). Attached is a ZIP file with a name similar to Photo 05-11-2016, 03 26 04.zip (the numbers in the attachment
match the references in the email). It contains a .js file with a similar name.

Trusted third-party analysis (thank you!) shows the various scripts downloading from:

51941656.de.strato-hosting.eu/87yg7yyb
67.222.43.30/87yg7yyb
developinghands.com/87yg7yyb
gesdes.com/87yg7yyb
helpcomm.com/87yg7yyb
neihan8.tk/87yg7yyb
oldtimerfreunde-pfinztal.de/87yg7yyb
otakutamashi.cl/87yg7yyb
sarikamisotelleri.com/87yg7yyb

This drops a file with a detection rate of 3/56. This is likely to be Locky ransomware, a full analysis is pending. However an earlier Locky campaign today phoned home to:

185.82.202.170 (Host Sailor, United Arab Emirates)
88.214.236.11 (Overoptic Systems, UK / Russia)
5.34.183.40 (ITL, Ukraine)

According to a DeepViz report,  this sample has identical characteristics.

Recommended blocklist:
185.82.202.170
88.214.236.11
5.34.183.40