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.
Table 1 below: List of subject lines, motor vessel, type of malware sent and sender data that was seen in Wapack Lab’s malicious email collection from March 5, 2019 to March 12, 2019.
|
First Seen |
Subject Line Used |
Malware Detections |
Sending Email |
Targets |
|
March 6th 2019 |
VSL: MV Glory Sea |
Ad-Aware - Trojan.GenericKD.41071394 Avast - Win32:Malware-gen Arcabit - Trojan.Generic.D272B322 AVG - Win32:Malware-gen Qihoo-360 - susp.rtf.objupdate.gen Kaspersky - HEUR:Exploit.MSOffice.Generic Avira - W97M/Abnormal.vvvng
|
PT INTER ORIENT LOGISTICS <bali.sales2@eml-net.com> |
hk2apc01ft003.eop-apc01.prod.protection.outlook.com sg2pr06ca0165.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com hk2apc01ft003.mail.protection.outlook.com apc01-hk2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com sg2apc01ft041.eop-apc01.prod.protection.outlook.com sg2apc01ft024.mail.pro |
| March 6th 2019 |
Request for Quotation-MV DAE WON
|
Ikarus - Trojan-Downloader.VBA.Agent ESET-NOD32 - VBA/TrojanDownloader.Agent.MYV Fortinet - VBA/Agent.DPFP!tr.dldr GData - VB:Trojan.Agent.DQUZ Avira - TR/Dldr.Script.jdntx Emsisoft - VB:Trojan.Agent.DQUZ (B) Ad-Aware - VB:Trojan.Agent.DQUZ |
Prima Marine Public Company Limited <shipping@primamarine.co.th> |
primamarine.co.th spin.electroputere.ro electroputere.ro zenith.infortelecomhosting.com |
|
March 6th 2019 |
MV OCEAN WAVE 9 - BUNKER INVOICE
|
Kaspersky - HEUR:Exploit.MSOffice.Generic Avira - W97M/Abnormal.olerf Rising - Trojan.Kryptik!8.8/N3#88% (RDM+:cmRtazqprUoNkVIfCVpmhel3e3ZQ) MicroWorld-eScan - Exploit.CVE-2018-0802.Gen TrendMicro-HouseCall - TROJ_FRS.0NC106C619
|
G-WORLDLINE <kwl@G-worldline.com>
|
g-worldline.com barsyl.in airlive.com
|
|
March 7th 2019 |
Fwd: MV HTK NEPTUNE
|
McAfee - Exploit-CVE2017-11882.aj F-Secure -Malware.W97M/Abnormal.dkaaw Kaspersky -HEUR:Exploit.MSOffice.Generic Sophos - Troj/RtfExp-EV GData - Exploit.CVE-2018-0802.Gen DrWeb - Trojan.PWS.Stealer.25784 Avira - W97M/Abnormal.dkaaw |
Missiouriov Maxim <MMissiouriov@toyotatt.ru> |
bc-exch-cas1.int.businesscar.ru toyotatt.ru cosco-ogs.com business-car.ru
|
|
March 7th 2019 |
Fwd: MV HTK NEPTUNE |
malware (ai score=88) - MAX, HEUR:Exploit.MSOffice.Generic - Kaspersky, Exploit.CVE-2018-0802.Gen - MicroWorld-eScan, Mal_HPGen-37b - TrendMicro-HouseCall, a variant of DOC/Abnormal.H - ESET-NOD32, Exploit.CVE-2018-0802.Gen - GData, RTF/Agent - AhnLab-V3, |
Postverteiler <pm@hoffmanneitle.com> |
hoffmanneitle.com
|
|
March 7th 2019 |
MT OCEAN STAR ISO 8217 2005
|
BitDefender -Gen:Variant.Razy.474858 Fortinet - W32/GenKryptik.DBTA!tr MAX - malware (ai score=84) Invincea - heuristic DrWeb - Trojan.PWS.Stealer.23680 VBA32 - BScope.Trojan.VBKryjetor AegisLab -Trojan.Win32.Generic.4!c |
George, America ship.,co <george.ogn@amshipco.com> |
|
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