Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID14852: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 22, 2015

Medium

Alert ID:

38499

First Published:

2015 April 22 15:32 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 (RuleID14852) may contain the following files:

Name	Size in Bytes	MD5 Checksum
Payment Slip.gz / P.O4308.scr
253,952
0x122639CEBD57CF2DE4C1DB3F65E0C04C

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

> Subject: BANK SLIP

Message Body:

**Good Day,
Attached is the bank copy of payment as instructed from our client to
transfer,
please confirm if the bank details is also correct, the payment is
till under processing.
Thanks for your cooperation, waiting for your soonest reply as payment
is urgent.
Yours Sincerely
Rosemary Chucks
payment manager HSBC BANK. **

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-22 15:32 GMT
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