Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Deposit Confirmation Email Messages on January 24, 2014

Medium

Alert ID:

32563

First Published:

2014 January 24 21:01 GMT

Version:

1

Summary

• Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a bank payment notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the attachment to view the payment. However, the .rar attachment contains a malicious .pif file that, when executed, attempts to infect the system with malicious code.

Email messages that are related to this threat (RuleID8613) may contain the following files:

> USD 32,000 25,000 64,000 Payments Swifts 24-01-2014.pdfx.rar
USD 32,000 25,000 64,000 Payments Swifts 24-01-2014.pdfx.pif

The USD 32,000 25,000 64,000 Payments Swifts 24-01-2014.pdfx.pif file in the USD 32,000 25,000 64,000 Payments Swifts 24-01-2014.pdfx.rar attachment has a file size of 1,378,365 bytes. The MD5 checksum, which is a unique identifier of the executable, is the following string: 0xC7F177AF6947A9E8164C109D3959F90A

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

> Message Body:

Hi Dear
Please find attached Payments Swifts and get back to us when the payments are confirmed into your USD account.
Thank you
John Lee
Purchase Manager
Sunny Land Trading Co., Ltd
3300 Polo Place, Bronx, 45213 New York
Phone: +4127118912

Cisco Security analysts examine real-world email 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 email security threats and trends. Cisco will continue to monitor this threat and automatically adapt systems to protect customers. This report will be updated if there are significant changes or if the risk to end users increases.

Cisco security appliances protect customers during the critical period between the first exploit of a virus outbreak and the release of vendor antivirus signatures. Email that is managed by Cisco and end users who are protected by Cisco Web Security Appliances will not be impacted by these attacks. Cisco security appliances are automatically updated to prevent both spam email and hostile web URLs from being passed to the end user.

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Revision History

* Version	Description	Section	Date
1	Initial Release		2014-January-24 21:01 GMT
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