Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Money Transfer Notification Email Messages on February 17, 2014

Medium

Alert ID:

32891

First Published:

2014 February 17 17:16 GMT

Version:

1

Summary

• Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a money transfer notice for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open the attachment to acknowledge the receipt. However, the .rar attachment contains a malicious .exe file that, when executed, attempts to infect the system with malicious code.

Email messages that are related to this threat (RuleID8877) may contain the following files:

> wire receipt.rar
wire receipt.exe

The wire receipt.exe file size in the wire receipt.rar attachment is unavailable. The MD5 checksum is also unavailable.

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

> Subject: Fw:Re: Wire Receipt

Message Body:

To you re kind Attention
We have send remittance as promised, Kindly find the attached T/T Wire
copy and acknowledge the receipt. you re kind action to delivery
time-line will be appreciated
Warm Regards
Manager
RAHMANI GEN.LTD.CO AU
hxxp: //www.australianbullioncompany.com.au
Level 10, 227 Collins Street (Wales Corner Building)
Melbourne, Victoria Australia 3000
Ph +61 3 9654 8167
Fax +61 3 9654 8164

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-February-17 17:16 GMT
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