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Friday 22 January 2016

UKMail 988271023 tracking information macro malware

Description:


UKMail 988271023 tracking information macro malware

Headers:

From: no-reply@ukmail.com
Subject: UKMail 988271023 tracking information

Message Body:

UKMail Info!
Your parcel has not been delivered to your address January 21, 2016, because nobody was at home.
Please view the information about your parcel, print it and go to the post office to receive your package.

Warranties
UKMail expressly disclaims all conditions, guarantees and warranties, express or implied, in respect of the Service.
Where the law prevents such exclusion and implies conditions and warranties into this contract,
where legally permissible the liability of UKMail for breach of such condition,
guarantee or warranty is limited at the option of UKMail to either supplying the Service again or paying the cost of having the service supplied again.
If you don't receive a package within 30 working days UKMail will charge you for it's keeping.
You can find any information about the procedure and conditions of parcel keeping in the nearest post office.

Best regards,
UKMail

Attachment filename(s):


988271023-PRCL.xls


Sha256 Hashes:


886adc192957bda32b375503c0d8b3c09f4b77a2609e4ef5952072c79c1ca7a0 [1]
c66742b7b4a90e7cf7c909152ca4f5ebc9d8dbc5825877fd3b1103081abb948c [2]
eae89bcb2c5349000441990e85c09b64d6dc0a9d4308140f640ef357f68b2876 [3]

Malware Virus Scanner Report(s):

VirusTotal Report: [1] (detection 3/55)
VirusTotal Report: [2] (detection 3/55)
VirusTotal Report: [3] (detection 3/55)

Sanesecurity Signature detection:

badmacro.ndb: Sanesecurity.Badmacro.Xls.Wshell.G

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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