Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID14475: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 3, 2015

Medium

Alert ID:

38214

First Published:

2015 April 3 13:04 GMT

Version:

1

Summary

• Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software.

Email messages that are related to this threat (RuleID14475) may contain the following files:

Name	Size in Bytes	MD5 Checksum
ORDER DETAILS pdf04022015.rar / ORDER DETAILS 001.exe
274,432
0xEFED5601600B2A8C872AD89759E48E8B

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

> Subject: Inquiry & order details

Message Body:

Good day,
I’m Tony, sales manager of CAPODOPERA S.R.L located in Italy.
Our company wish to purchase your products and we will also like to inquire about your prices so can you please send me your product catalog at earliest?
Also for clarity please view attached our order details for your reference and we wish for your best prices inorder to establish a genuine long term business corporation with your esteemed company.
Best regards,
Tony
Sales Manager

Cisco security appliances can help protect customers during the critical period between the first exploit of a virus outbreak and the release of vendor antivirus signatures. Cisco Web Security Appliances help secure and control web and email traffic by offering layers of malware protection. Cisco security appliances are automatically updated to help 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		2015-April-03 13:04 GMT
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