Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID30609: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on September 13, 2017

Medium

Alert ID:

55210

First Published:

2017 September 13 15:53 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 (RuleID30609) may contain the following files:

Name	Size in Bytes	MD5 Checksum
New Enquiry.jar
627,070
0x44433A8E092008A363E857955175B439

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

> Subject: New order enquiry

Message Body:

Hello Dear, Please find the list of products we need. This will be a regular requirement for our operations. Qty may vary depending on the stock. If you give reasonable quotation we will purchase regularly from your company. Please send the quotation.

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 September 13, 2017.	—	2017-September-13
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