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Tuesday 24 November 2015

Melissa O'Neill Scan as requested newhopecare.co.uk

Description:


Melissa O'Neill Scan as requested newhopecare.co.uk macro malware.

Headers:

From: "Melissa O'Neill" {adminoldbury@newhopecare.co.uk}
Subject: Scan as requested

Message Body:

Regards

Paulette Riley
Administrator
New Hope Specialist Care Ltd
126 Brook Road
Oldbury
West Midlands
B68 8AE
tel: 0121 552 1055
mobile: 07811 486 270
fax: 0121 544 7104

* PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS EMAIL *
 
 
 
This is an email from New Hope Specialst Care Ltd. The information contained within this message is 
intended for the addressee only and may contain confidential and/or privilege information. If you are not
 the intended recipient you may not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. 
If you have received this message in error please notify the sender immediately by email or telephone 
and either return or destroy the original message. New Hope Specialsit Care Ltd accept no responsibility
 for any changes made to this message after it has been sent by the original author. The views contained
 herein do not necessarily represent the views of New Hope Specialist Care Ltd This email or any of its
 attachments may contain data that falls within the scope of the Data Protection Acts. You must ensure
 that handling or processing of such data by you is fully compliant with the terms and provisions of the 
Data Protection Act 1984 and 1988

Attachment filename(s):

20151009144829748.doc

Sha256 Hashes:

eedcabef646f97e4195f4ab5b6d52286be283af9bc09533707916b5c09c36df1 [1]


Malware Virus Scanner Report(s):

VirusTotal Report: [1] (detection 5/55)

Sanesecurity Signature detection:


badmacro.ndb: Sanesecurity.Badmacro.Wsc.New

Important notes:

Am I Safe?

The current round of Word/Excel/XML/Docm attachments are targeted at Windows and Microsoft Office users.

Apple (Mac/iPhone/iPad), Android and Blackberry mobiles/tablets that open these attachments will be safe.LibreOffice and OpenOffice users should also be safe but do not enable macros if asked to by the
attached file.


If you have Macros disabled  in Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel, you should be safe but again,
do not enable macros if asked to by the attached file.

However, if you are an  (Mac/iPhone/iPad), Android and Blackberry mobiles/tablet user.. and forward the message to a Windows user, you will then put them at risk of opening the attachment and auto-downloading the malware.

These word/excel attachments normally try to download either...

    Dridex banking trojan,
    Shifu banking trojan

... both of which are designed to steal login information regarding your bank accounts either by
key logging, taking screen shots or copying information directly from your clipboard (copy/paste)


It's also worth remembering that the company itself  may not have any knowledge of this faked email and any link(s) or attachment in the email normally won't have come from their servers or IT systems but from an external bot net.

These bot-net emails normally have faked email headers/addresses.

It's not advised to ring/email the the company themselves, as there won't really be anything they can do to help you or to stop the emails being spread.



Cheers,
Steve

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