return of fake UPS cannot deliver malspam with an updated nemucod ransomware and Kovter payload

The UPS failed to deliver messages have come back with a vengeance yesterday. I haven’t seen them in UK for  a while now , but it looks like the Kovter gang have taken advantage of the Petya outbreak to add to the mix. They have updated the nemucod ransomware version … Continue reading → Continue reading return of fake UPS cannot deliver malspam with an updated nemucod ransomware and Kovter payload→

fake Canadian Revenue Agency interac transfer phishing scam via text message

Just a quick one to remind everybody that the Petya or NotPetya or whatever it will turn out to be called running riot throughout Europe and other parts of the world encrypting computers seemingly without any method of stopping it at the moment isn’t the only malware around. Users are … Continue reading → Continue reading fake Canadian Revenue Agency interac transfer phishing scam via text message→

More Italian Fattura Malspam delivering banking Trojans

An email with the subject of Fattura n.9171 del 27/06/17  pretending to come from random Italian email addresses   with a  Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment  delivers what is most likely Zeus Panda Banking Trojan. The usual suspects on VirusTotal detect these as Sage crypt.  Experience tells me these are more likely to … Continue reading → Continue reading More Italian Fattura Malspam delivering banking Trojans→

Japanese language invoice malspam using js files inside zips today

Overnight we have seen another mass Japanese Malspam campaign with a change to the malware downloaders delivering some sort of malware that is  being detected on VirusTotal as a ransomware. I am not certain that is a correct detection. This gang traditionally deliver Ursnif / Gozi  banking Trojan and it has … Continue reading → Continue reading Japanese language invoice malspam using js files inside zips today→

more invoice malspam with links to download word doc deliver malware

A bit of a strange one here that is quite different in delivery method to what we usually see and gives the impression of being personally targeted at the recipient, although it obviously isn’t. These all pass authentication checks because they come via Outlook.com An email with the subject of Cust … Continue reading → Continue reading more invoice malspam with links to download word doc deliver malware→

*CONFIRM ORDER AND REVISE INVOICE* malspam uses CVE-2017-0199 rtf exploit to deliver malware

An email with the subject of *CONFIRM ORDER AND REVISE INVOICE* pretending to come from  admin@ random company with a malicious word doc  attachment. This word doc is actually a RTF file that uses what looks like the CVE-2017-0199  exploit, although this looks quite different to previous versions I have seen. At … Continue reading → Continue reading *CONFIRM ORDER AND REVISE INVOICE* malspam uses CVE-2017-0199 rtf exploit to deliver malware→

*CONFIRM ORDER AND REVISE INVOICE* malspam uses CVE-2017-0199 rtf exploit to deliver malware

An email with the subject of *CONFIRM ORDER AND REVISE INVOICE* pretending to come from  admin@ random company with a malicious word doc  attachment. This word doc is actually a RTF file that uses what looks like the CVE-2017-0199  exploit, although this looks quite different to previous versions I have seen. At … Continue reading → Continue reading *CONFIRM ORDER AND REVISE INVOICE* malspam uses CVE-2017-0199 rtf exploit to deliver malware→

419 scam from compromised Paraguay Ministry of Justice email account or server

We see loads of 419 scams which always ask for an advance fee somewhere down the line. We have been seeing some coming from genuine Government email addresses and servers in different parts of the world. This example comes from the Paraguay Ministry of Justice. Dr matti lahteenma <info@ministeriodejusticia.gov.py> The … Continue reading → Continue reading 419 scam from compromised Paraguay Ministry of Justice email account or server→

fake invoice delivers malware via cab files with a malware script that I have never seen before

Continuing with the never ending series of malware downloaders is an email with the subject of Invoice 4903 coming or pretending to come from what are most likely random email addresses ( I have only received 1 copy so far) with a .cab attachment. Cab files are a Microsoft specific form of … Continue reading → Continue reading fake invoice delivers malware via cab files with a malware script that I have never seen before→

Receipt to print malspam delivers malware

Continuing with the never ending series of malware downloaders is an email with the subject of Receipt to print coming or pretending to come from random companies, names and email addresses with a semi-random named zip attachment which delivers some malware. I don’t know what this is yet. Earlier WSF files today … Continue reading → Continue reading Receipt to print malspam delivers malware→