Cisco Security Intelligence Operations has detected significant activity related to Spanish-language spam e-mail messages that claim to contain a notification from the Colombian government about increasing malware threats. The text in the e-mail message instructs the recipient to follow a supplied link for further details. However, the link redirects to a malicious .exe file that, when executed, attempts to infect the system with malicious code.
E-mail messages that are related to this threat (RuleID3358) may contain the following file: www.policia.gov.co.operatividad.listado.paginas.webs.reportadas.list-excel.exe
The www.policia.gov.co.operatividad.listado.paginas.webs.reportadas.list-excel.exe file has a file size of 49,152 bytes. The MD5 checksum, which is a unique identifier of the executable, is the following string: 0xDBFA4D9DF61C61E13B8BCA10CC8CB093
The following text is a sample of the e-mail message that is associated with this threat outbreak:
Subject: Con solo visitar una de estas paginas webs tan importantes en colombia pones en riesgo tu informacion personal.
Message Body:
Dado que
el mundo de internet es susceptible de ser utilizado por personas
de
poca
tica que atentan contra la seguridad de la
informacin, la direccion antifraudes de la policia nacional de
colombia luego de una rigurosa investigaccion hemos detectado que
muchas paginas webs que operan en colombia contienen malawares o virus
que ponen en riesgo su informaccion personal y pueden daar su
equipo en su totalidad , evitese por su propio bienestar visitar las
paginas que encontrara en el listado a continuaccion:
hxxp://www.policia.gov.co/portal/page/portal/HOME/Home/operatividad/listado-paginas-webs-reportadascomofraude.htlm
Es nuestro deber
cuidar de su integridad tambien en internet.
Cisco Security Intelligence Operations analysts examine real-world e-mail traffic data that is collected from over 100,000 contributing organizations worldwide. This data helps provide a range of information about and analysis of global e-mail security threats and trends. Cisco will continue to monitor this threat and automatically adapt IronPort systems to protect customers. This report will be updated if there are significant changes or if the risk to end users increases.
Cisco IronPort Virus Outbreak Filters protect customers during the critical period between the first exploit of a virus outbreak and the release of vendor antivirus signatures. E-mail that is managed by Cisco and end users who are protected by Cisco IronPort web security appliances will not be impacted by these attacks. Cisco IronPort appliances are automatically updated to prevent both spam e-mail and hostile web URLs from being passed to the end user.
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