Medium
Alert ID:
33672
First Published:
2014 April 7 13:43 GMT
Version:
1
Summary
Email messages that are related to this threat (RuleID9512) may contain the following files:
> _swift.rar
swift.scr _
The swift.scr in the swift.rar file has a file size of 512,000 bytes. The MD5 checksum, which is a unique identifier of the executable, is the following string: 0xFE89539540F34DB318C0D653186C2A3B
The following text is a sample of the email message that is associated with this threat outbreak:
> Subject:** USD TRANSFERS.**
Message Body:
Dear Sir/Ma,
Please find in the attachment our balance payment of $500,000.00 USD,
Payments made by our accounting department to your bank.
Please Confirm and Kindly Check Please.
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 |
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1 | Initial Release | 2014-April-07 13:43 GMT | |
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