Vessel Impersonation 01 23 2019

Weekly 2018 Motor Vessel (MV) & Motor Tanker (MT) Impersonation

Wapack Labs performs weekly queries of our backend databases, identifying all new data containing Motor Vessel (MV) and Motor Tanker (MT) in the subject line of malicious emails.  Email subject line Motor Vessel (MV) or Motor Tanker (MT) keyword usage is a common lure to entice users in the maritime industry to open emails containing malicious attachments.  Wapack Labs is providing this weekly list of Motor Vessels in which Wapack Labs directly observed the vessel being impersonated, with associated malicious emails.  The identified emails attempted to deliver malware or phishing links to compromise the vessels and/or parent companies.  Users should be aware of the subject lines used and the email addresses that are attempting to deliver them.  Users should never click on or download any attachments or links in suspicious emails.

Significant Vessel Keys Words:

MT, M/T

merchant tanker

MV, M/V

merchant vessel

MY, M/Y

motor yacht

VLCC

very large crude carrier

ULCC

ultra large crude carrier

RV, R/V

research vessel

FPSO

floating production storage & offloading

Figure 1.  Geo-location of receiving IPs of the malicious emails. Location is not exact and is approximate location of the receiving IP gathered from Wapack Lab’s malicious email collection.

Figure 2. Geo-location of sender IPs of the malicious emails. Location is not exact and is approximate location of the sender IP gathered from Wapack Lab’s malicious email collection.

Below Table 1: List of subject lines, motor vessel, type of malware sent and sender data that was seen in Wapack Lab’s malicious email collection from January 15, 2019 to January 22, 2019.

 

First Seen

 

Subject Line Used

 

Malware Detections

 

Sending Email

 

Targets

January 16th 2019

RE: REQUISITION OF STORE SUPPLY MV. PACIFIC EAST

Emsisoft -Trojan.MultiDrop.1.Gen (B)

McAfee - Artemis!327F46943B09

BitDefender -Trojan.MultiDrop.1.Gen

Microsoft - Trojan:Win32/Azden.A!cl

GData - Trojan.MultiDrop.1.Gen

TrendMicro -TrojanSpy.Win32.LOKI.THOAAFAI

Antiy-AVL -VCS[Warning]/Email.Agent.1

 

INTERMARINE SHIPPING CO.LTD <cici_ren@intermarineship.com>

geararticles.com

bnbedge2016.bnb.by

tee15.geararticles.com

January 16th 2019

MV GOOD LUCK-CTM

Rising -Trojan.GenKryptik!8.AA55/N3#79% (RDM+:cmRtazr2vVVyOzS7brFmun2BepVc)

Arcabit - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen

Antiy-AVL -VCS[Warning]/Email.Agent.1

MicroWorld-eScan - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen

GData –

Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen

SDSC Crew Manning Co. Ltd. <admin@san.sumad.ml>

crcvmail14.nm.naver.com

san.sumad.ml

January 17th 2019

M/V MINOAN FALCON V. 1

Antiy-AVL -VCS[Warning]/Email.Agent.1 

Arcabit - Trojan.Zmutzy.68

Kaspersky - Backdoor.Win32.Androm.rabl

 

TrendMicro - TrojanSpy.Win32.LOKI.AMG

Microsoft - Trojan:Win32/Dynamer!rfn

Fortinet -W32/VBKryptik.ECWP!tr

GData,Trojan -Gen:Variant.Ser.Ursu.1830


COSCO SHIPPING BULK CO.  LTD. <yuanyisong@chinabulker.com>

 

live.cn

pleskforletter.smartplatform.es

chinabulker.com

mail.mod.mil.by

January 17th 2019

MV GULF BLUE  / Port Agency Appointment

Fortinet - W32/Agent.AJFK!tr

MAX - malware (ai score=81)

GData - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen

Avast – Win32:Trojan-gen

Rising - Trojan.Injector!1.AFE3 (CLASSIC)

Arcabit - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen

BitDefender -Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen

Awards Shipping Agency (Korea) Ltd. <exoper2@hkkorea.co.kr>

lie.com

mod.mil.by

vanityfair.com

mail.mod.mil.by

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