Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID28636: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on April 10, 2017

Medium

Alert ID:

53374

First Published:

2017 April 10 15:42 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 (RuleID28636) may contain the following files:

Name	Size in Bytes	MD5 Checksum
RFQ4559099.jar
512,361
0x0AEDC56A8E3EB051A228448E6F808009

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

> Subject: Fwd: New Order- VO-C 17/09/Send Lowest Price by unit value

Message Body:

Dear sir,
Trust this will find you well. Please send your best C&F /DDP Kuwait offer for Quantity 1 as per the attached specification. This is an inquiry from one of our potential customer and kindly send your discounted offer at your earliest.
Send Catalog and Training – specifications of the offer
· Offer Due Date: Before 7/04/2017
Other Notes:
1- Please provide us your Technical offer on your letter head.
2- Ensure to provide us the offer validity at least for 30 Days.
3- Ensure to provide us the weight & volume of the shipment or freight charges along with the offer
4- Lowest price by unit value and total value.
5- Earliest delivery time.
6- Payment terms.
Thanks & Regards,

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.

Revision History

* Version	Description	Section	Date
1	Initial release to report significant activity detected by Cisco Security on April 10, 2017.	—	2017-April-10
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