Weekly 2019 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.
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 |
Significant Vessel Keys Words:
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: List of subject lines, motor vessel, type of malware sent and sender data that was seen in Wapack Lab’s malicious email collection from July 3, 2019 to July 10, 2019.
First Seen |
Subject Line Used |
Malware Detections |
Sending Email |
Targets |
July 4th, 2019 | MV ALPHA TRADE- PDA REQUIRED FOR LOADING TANKER | Arcabit - Trojan.Zmutzy.802
Cyren - W32/VBInject.XR.gen!Eldorado
MicroWorld-eScan - Trojan.Zmutzy.802
Rising - Trojan.Injector!1.B459 (CLASSIC)
MAX - malware (ai score=88)
Microsoft - Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml | 742bd91d@82764420ab0ef.es | No reported targets |
July 4th, 2019 | CTM FOR / MT. WOOJIN EVELYN | FireEye - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen
Rising - Trojan.Injector!1.B459 (CLASSIC)
GData - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen
BitDefender - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen
Arcabit - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen | \"OJS / yg yun\" <e6d@dbc1a5d41bd09.kr> | spetsflot.pro
bestmarine.co.kr
totalsupporttravel.com
thanglongmarine.com
ktweb.co.kr
starbulk.com
samplelogistics.com
juhoshipping.co.kr |
July 4th, 2019 | M/V EFI THEO - Order - KWON- SP/ET/035-19 | Arcabit - Trojan.Zmutzy.802
Cyren - W32/Trojan.SW.gen!Eldorado
Ikarus - Trojan.MSIL.Injector
F-Prot - W32/Trojan.SW.gen!Eldorado
MAX - malware (ai score=81)
BitDefender - Trojan.Zmutzy.802
Sophos - Trojan.Zmutzy.802 - FireEye | =?UTF-8?Q?=EC=84=9C=EA=B0=80=EC=9B=90?= <3868174f@7ca1d3.kr>
| 56563f.com
d4bd7686096.com
|
July 4th, 2019 | MV BARROW ISLAND 04072019 | BitDefender - Trojan.Zmutzy.802
MAX - malware (ai score=84)
Rising - Trojan.Injector!1.B459 (CLASSIC)
FireEye - Trojan.Zmutzy.802
Microsoft - Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos.C!cl
Arcabit - Trojan.Zmutzy.802 | \"LH SHIPPING PTE. LTD. (SINGAPORE)\" <eb023fac63@b47d857da961d.com>
| spin.electroputere.ro
iaxntelecom.com
lafargeholcim.com |
July 4th, 2019 | MV SABRINA CART TRANSIT, CTM // | Emsisoft - Exploit.CVE-2017-11882.Gen (B)
Antiy-AVL - Trojan[Exploit]/OLE.CVE-2017-11882
Ikarus - Exploit.CVE-2017-11882
Zoner - Probably W97NativeOnly
BitDefender - Exploit.CVE-2017-11882.Gen | Pacific Basin Shipping (HK) Limited <ba19a09a68@d418e903a481.com>
| 30718da8.eg |
July 5th, 2019 | MV DA TAI V32----AGENCY\'S APPOINTMENT | MicroWorld-eScan - Gen:Variant.Razy.527991
Avira - TR/Kryptik.ngfmg
Ikarus - Win32.SuspectCrc
Emsisoft - Gen:Variant.Razy.527991 (B)
Cyren - W32/VBInject.YB.gen!Eldorado
Sophos - Mal/Generic-S,
AVG - Win32:CrypterX-gen [Trj]
| \"COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers Co.Ltd \" <078adcca@6a68cebaf9.cn> | No reported targets |
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