"Your private photos are there for anyone to see. why??" spam

This spam email has a malicious attachment:

Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:08:42 +0100 [08:08:42 EDT]
Subject:      Your private photos are there for anyone to see. why??

Sorry to disturb you.Someone sent me thee pictures they seem to be from you and your
boyfriend I'm really troubled by this why do you send your private naked photos around??
this is beyound my understanding. It's in attachment 

The attachment is IMG000003342.zip which somewhat predictably has a malicious executable inside, IMG000003342.exe which has a VirusTotal detection rate of 12/48. Automated analysis tools [1] [2] show that it makes various changes to the system but do not detect any remote hosts contacted.

Injection attack in progress 17/3/14

A couple of injection attacks seem to be in progress, I haven't quite got to the bottom of them yet.. but you might want to block the following domains:

fsv-hoopte-winsen.de
grupocbi.com

These are hosted on 82.165.77.21 and 72.47.228.162 respectively.

The malware is resistant to automated tools and redirects improperly-formed attempt to analyse it to Bing [1] [2]. The malware is appended to hacked .js files on target sites and looks similar to this:

This sort of attack has been used to push fake software updates in the past. Even though I can't quite get to the bottom of this at the moment, you can be pretty sure that this is Nothing Good and I would recommend blocking these domains.

Something evil on 198.50.140.64/27

Thanks again to Frank Denis (@jedisct1) for this heads up involving grubby web host OVH Canada and their black hat customer "r5x.org / Penziatki" hosting the Nuclear EK in 198.50.140.64/27.

A full list of all the web sites I can find associated with this range can be found here, but the simplest thing to do is block 198.50.140.64/27 completely (or if you are paranoid about security and don't mind some collateral damage block 198.27.0.0/16 and 198.50.0.0/16).

Domains in use that I can identify are listed below. I recommend you block all of them. Domains listed as malicious by Google are in red, those listed as suspect by SURBL are in italics.

Recommended blocklist:

198.50.140.64/27
ingsat.eu
kingro.biz
allnew-overstocked-items.us
auto-policy-june.us
creditscorerangeadvice.com
endenergy-bills.us
endundereyedarkcircles.us
getmatch-on-line.us
godating-thurs.us
gomarine-nows.us
neweyehealth-now.us
new-omeganew.us
nowreverse-new.us
topomegafi-x.us
calculated1.usadvisoracct.us
auto9spec.us
autocquotes.us
brightmangroup.us
car04212.us
dailytips4health.us
estrexpe.eu
facts4burningfat.us
fallspecials1.us
freereview.us
fsaccounting.us
homes1research.us
homesavngs.us
hometactics.us
ieligible.us
imusiche.biz
kleycast.biz
kunstar.eu
maoride.eu
micklet.com
my3newscores.us
myreport3card.us
newdaily-health-tip.us
new-healthtip-today.us
newomegaheartfix.us
newoverstock-now.us
newproprate.us
newvisionsummer.us
note018271.us
rate-changes1.us
ratedropps.us
ratenotice09182.us
renew-autoprotection.us
reportcenter3.us
repostcc.us
sandersonhomes.us
spauto1.us
theactivity3.us
unifiedregister1.us
updateon3report.us
updateratehr.us
updscore03.us
uptodate-records3.us

Malware sites to block 13/3/14

These IPs and domains seem to be involved in injection attacks today. I recommend you block them.

64.120.242.178
188.226.132.70
93.189.46.90
tzut.asifctuenefcioroxa.net
0dr5ah.edjadehegile.com
2ch.asifctuenefcioroxa.net
qwenty.lazarmihail.net
qwenty.onlystream.com.ar
aderfas.miltonsvideo.com.br
aderfas.porwisz.eu
traster.buddysoftware.com.au
qwenty.abundiaorganico.com.ar
qwenty.loishconsulting.com.au
qwenty.scottgotyourspot.com
qwenty.liveoakit.com
qwenty.pfsensefirewall.com
qwenty.tongfangtechnology.com
qwenty.sappa.com.au
aderfas.mypagecreator.com
needrast.dundemworld.com
soon.caelux.es
soon.wezel.info
asifctuenefcioroxa.com
asifctuenefcioroxa.info
asifctuenefcioroxa.net
edjadehegile.com
ekpmpb.asifctuenefcioroxa.net
j4qk.asifctuenefcioroxa.com
jgqke.asifctuenefcioroxa.com
np59s.asifctuenefcioroxa.info

The domains being abused are as follows.. many of them appear to be hijacked legitimate domains.
abundiaorganico.com.ar
asifctuenefcioroxa.com
asifctuenefcioroxa.info
asifctuenefcioroxa.net
buddysoftware.com.au
caelux.es
dundemworld.com
edjadehegile.com
lazarmihail.net
liveoakit.com
loishconsulting.com.au
miltonsvideo.com.br
mypagecreator.com
onlystream.com.ar
pfsensefirewall.com
porwisz.eu
sappa.com.au
scottgotyourspot.com
tongfangtechnology.com
wezel.info

Sky.com "Statement of account" spam

This fake Sky.com email comes with a malicious attachment:

Date:      Thu, 13 Mar 2014 12:23:09 +0100 [07:23:09 EDT]
From:      "Sky.com" [statement@sky.com]
Subject:      Statement of account

Afternoon,

Please find attached the statement of account.

We look forward to receiving payment for the December invoice as this is now due for
payment.

Regards,
Carmela

This email, including attachments, is private and confidential. If you have received this
email in error please notify the sender and delete it from your system. Emails are not
secure and may contain viruses. No liability can be accepted for viruses that might be
transferred by this email or any attachment. Wilson McKendrick LLP Solicitors, Queens
House, 29 St. Vincent Place, Glasgow G1 2DT Registered in Scotland No. SO303162. Members:
Mark Wilson LLB Dip. NP LP Allan T. McKendrick LLB Dip. LP NP.

Attached is an archive Statement.zip which in turn contains a malicious executable Statement.scr which has a VirusTotal detection rate of 6/50. Automated analysis tools [1] [2] [3] show attempted connections to the following domains and IPs:

188.247.130.190 (Prime Telecom SRL, Romania)
gobemall.com
gobehost.info

184.154.11.228 (Singlehop, US)
terenceteo.com

184.154.11.233 (Singlehop, US)
quarkspark.org

The two Singlehop IPs appear to belong to Host The Name (hostthename.com) which perhaps indicates a problem at that reseller.

Recommended blocklist:
184.154.11.228
184.154.11.233
188.247.130.190
gobemall.com
gobehost.info
terenceteo.com
quarkspark.org

Evil network: OVH Canada / r5x.org / Penziatki

Note: a more up-to-date list can be found here.

Hat tip to Frank Denis (@jedisct1) for this report on Nuclear EK's hosted by OVH Canada using their infamous "Penziatki" customer which is linked to black-hat host r5x.org. The blocks have been identified as belonging to that customer and I would recommend that you block them:

198.27.114.16/30
198.27.114.64/27
198.50.186.232/30
198.50.186.236/30
198.50.186.252/30
198.50.231.204/30

OVH Canada have repeatedly hosted exploit kits for this customer to the extent that I am suspicious that either they have been compromised in some way. These following blocks have been identified as serving up malware in the recent past:

192.95.6.24/29
192.95.7.8/30
192.95.7.224/28
192.95.10.16/29
192.95.10.208/28
192.95.41.88/29
192.95.43.160/28
192.95.46.56/30
192.95.46.60/30
192.95.46.132/30
192.95.47.232/30
192.95.47.236/30
198.27.96.132/30
198.27.103.204/30
198.27.114.16/30
198.27.114.64/27
198.50.164.240/30
198.50.172.64/30
198.50.172.68/30
198.50.172.72/30
198.50.172.76/30
198.50.197.28/30
198.50.197.48/30
198.50.197.52/30
198.50.197.56/30
198.50.197.60/30
198.50.186.232/30
198.50.186.236/30
198.50.186.252/30
198.50.204.240/30
198.50.204.244/30
198.50.212.172/30
198.50.219.240/30
198.50.219.248/30
198.50.224.240/30
198.50.231.204/30
198.50.235.196/30
198.50.242.120/30
198.50.246.240/30
198.50.247.248/30
198.50.247.252/30
198.50.251.168/30
198.50.251.172/30

Obviously there is a problem here. If you are in a security-sensitive environment then you might simply want to block traffic to the following ranges:

198.27.0.0/16
198.50.0.0/16

Of course this will block many legitimate sites, but if stopping exploit kits is a priority over some user inconvenience then you may want to consider it. If you want a slightly more nuanced blocklist then these ranges contain the biggest concentration of malware:

198.27.114.0/24
198.50.172.0/24
198.50.186.0/24
198.50.197.0/24
198.50.231.0/24

OVH must be aware of the reputation of their customer. I wonder why they keep tolerating them on their network?

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gateway.confirmation@gateway.gov.uk spam

This fake spam from the UK Government Gateway comes with a malicious payload:

Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:04:21 +0100 [07:04:21 EDT]
From:      gateway.confirmation@gateway.gov.uk
Subject:      Your Online Submission for Reference 485/GB3283519 Could not process
Priority:      High

The submission for reference 485/GB3283519 was successfully received and was not
processed.

Check attached copy for more information.

This is an automatically generated email. Please do not reply as the email address is not
monitored for received mail. 

Attached is a file GB3283519.zip which in turn contains a malicious executable GB10032014.pdf.scr which has an icon that makes it look like a PDF file. This has a VirusTotal detection rate of 7/50.

Automated analysis tools [1] [2] [3] show attempted downloads from i-softinc.com on 192.206.6.82 (MegaVelocity, Canada) and icamschat.com on 69.64.39.215 (Hosting Solutions International, US). I would recommend that you block traffic to the following IPs and domains:
192.206.6.82
i-softinc.com
icamschat.com

mms.Orange.co.uk "IMAGE Id 889195266-PicFFY2C TYPE=MMS" spam

A horribly managed spam turned up in my inbox, claiming to be an MMS message from Orange UK. Well, at least that's what it looked like when I got the HTML to render properly enough to make it readable..

Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:14:13 +0000 [04:14:13 EST]
From:      mms.service3694@mms.Orange.co.uk
Subject:      IMAGE Id 889195266-PicFFY2C TYPE=MMS

Description: Orange

Received from: 447457714595 | TYPE=MMS

There's meant to be an embedded image, but it is completely corrupt. Not that it makes much difference..

Attached is a file called bulger,jpg which is actually a ZIP file, so you have to rename it from .jpg to .zip in order to infect yourself. Some assembly is required in this case..

Anyway, once you have done all that and unzipped it, you get a malicious file IMG0000002993.exe  which has  a VirusTotal detection rate of 17/50. The Malwr report shows that the malware attempts to connect with a bunch of IPs that mostly look like dynamic ADSL subscribers. This sort of behaviour looks like P2P/Gameover Zeus or something similar.