Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Western Union Money Transfer Confirmation Email Messages on May 9, 2012

Medium

Alert ID:

25884

First Published:

2012 May 10 20:14 GMT

Version:

1

Summary

• Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam e-mail messages that claim to contain a payment slip for the recipient. The text in the e-mail message attempts to convince the recipient to follow a link and view the details. However, the link directs the user to a malicious .scr file that, when executed, attempts to infect the system with malicious code.

E-mail messages that are related to this threat (RuleID4144) may contain the following file:

> Payment.slip.scr

The Payment.slip.scr attachment has a file size of 299,008 bytes. The MD5 checksum, which is a unique identifier of the executable, is the following string: 0x62065A38F2CBB508B50BD896400A6934

The following text is a sample of the e-mail message that is associated with this threat outbreak:

> Message Body:
>
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> Your payment has been sent. Kindly click on the link to find your payment slip.
>
> You can contact us if you have any question.
>
> hxxp://secure-web.cisco.com/auth=11fEIFqNVeZ66hn1DywN0P5niM1roY&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.westernunion.com%2Fsend_money%2Fconfirmation
>
> Thank you.
>
> JesseFDHampton
>
> Western Union Money Transfer

Cisco Security analysts examine real-world e-mail traffic data that is collected from over 100,000 contributing organizations worldwide. This data helps provide a range of information about and analysis of global e-mail security threats and trends. Cisco will continue to monitor this threat and automatically adapt IronPort systems to protect customers. This report will be updated if there are significant changes or if the risk to end users increases.

Cisco IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters protect customers during the critical period between the first exploit of a virus outbreak and the release of vendor antivirus signatures. E-mail that is managed by Cisco and end users who are protected by Cisco IronPort web security appliances will not be impacted by these attacks. Cisco IronPort appliances are automatically updated to prevent both spam e-mail and hostile web URLs from being passed to the end user.

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