Showing posts with label Banking Trojan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Banking Trojan. Show all posts

Friday, November 29, 2013

WellsFargo spam serving infostealing malware



Not that new, but still noteworthy the spammers seem to be abusing WelssFargo (an American bank) as trusted sender. This is simple mail spoofing.


                                                Mail from "Georgina Franks"

Some example senders (where it seems to come from):
Evelyn_Piper@wellsfargo.com
Georgina_Franks@wellsfargo.com
Noe_Zavala@wellsfargo.com

As far as I could find, these email addresses do not even exist.

The mail itself is actually coming from the Pushdo botnet. Example IPs:

173.167.205.149 - IPVoid Result
209.181.66.178 - IPVoid Result

All the links in the mail are legit, this to convince you that the attachment will be legit as well. When opening the ZIP file (which is named WellsFargo.yourmailprefix) , you're presented with a what-looks-like a PDF file, but is in fact an EXE file: