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Spam emails and fake Microsoft patch

Myantispyware team May 29, 2006    

Internet Storm Center have received samples of an e-mail which is being actively spammed at the moment. The e-mail purports to be from Microsoft and it is notifying the recipient of “a new vulnerability [that] has been discovered in the Microsoft WinLogon Service”. It further states that the vulnerability can allow an attacker access to the unpatched system.

Of course, the user is advised to install the patch which can be downloaded from the included link.

As the e-mail body is an HTML message, the displayed link (http://www.microsoft.com/patches-win-logon-critical/winlogon_patchV1.12.exe) is not where the user will really be sent:

http:// www.redcallao.com/ [REMOVED] / winlogon_patchV1.12.exe

AV detection although a better then first time when we tried it, is still pretty bad. Only 8 products from VirusTotal detected this:

AntiVir 6.34.1.34 05.29.2006 Heuristic/Crypted.Modified
BitDefender 7.2 05.30.2006 Trojan.BeastPWS.C
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24 05.30.2006 Trojan-Spy.Win32.Delf.jq
NOD32v2 1.1566 05.30.2006 Win32/Spy.Delf.NBR
Panda 9.0.0.4 05.29.2006 Suspicious file
Sophos 4.05.0 05.30.2006 Troj/BeastPWS-C
Symantec 8.0 05.30.2006 Infostealer

Update:

Kaspersky Lab also reported about  fake Microsoft patch. They released an urgent update for Trojan-PSW.Win32.Sinowal.u.Sinowal is a family of password stealing Trojans which steals usernames/passwords entered via forms in an internet browser. It particularly targets certain banking domains and also has the ability to steal other locally stored passwords.

Sinowal has a special trick: when an infected user visits certain banking domains Sinowal inserts some of its own HTML code into the page. This is done to create a customized pop up which asks the user for personal info.

Sinowal variants are normally downloaded by Trojan-Downloaders which are installed by visiting certain websites which exploit security vulnerabilities in the browser or operating system.

Today the authors decided to try something different by spamming .de email addresses with an email that pretends to be from Microsoft Windows Update.

The email looks like this:

From: MS Windows Update [msrobot_donotreply|trickthespider|windowsupdate.com]
Subject: Achtung! Wichtige Nachrichten von Microsoft Windows Update!

Achtung! Wichtige Nachrichten von Microsoft Windows Update!

Sehr geehrte Benutzer Microsoft Windows XP!

Gestern haben unbekannte Hacker den neuen Wurm-Virus eingesetzt. Nachdem er ins system reingreift, wird er von sich selbst nach Ihrer mailadressenliste ausgesendet, und alle Ihren Kontakte werden angesteckt. Nach der Ansteckung fängt das System instabil zu arbeiten, und der Komputer “hängt” genau nach einer Minute nach dem nächsten Hochfahren.

Um die Benutzer des Systems Microsoft Windows XP zu schützen, haben unsere
Sicherheitsspezialisten eine Erneuerung fur das System entwickelt.

Sie sollen die an den E-Mail angehängte Datei offnen damit das System erneut
wird und vollständig von neuem Wurm geschützt wird.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Windows Update

As you hopefully know Microsoft never sends executables along with their emails. So social engineering attempts like these can be spotted easily, at least in theory.

And don’t forget, if you got infected with Sinowal, even if you have cleaned your system you still have to change your passwords.

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