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.
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: 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 10, 2019 to July 17, 2019.
First Seen |
Subject Line Used |
Malware Detections |
Sending Email |
Targets |
July 11th 2019 | MV. RI HONG//CARGO NOTICE-P.LIST (2/2) | TrendMicro - Trojan.Win32.WACATAC.USXVPG819
Avast - Win32:Malware-gen
Kaspersky - Backdoor.Win32.Androm.stfm
Emsisoft - Trojan.GenericKD.32127689 (B)
Fortinet - W32/GenKryptik.DMSO!tr
GData - Trojan.GenericKD.32127689
NANO-Antivirus - Trojan.Win32.Androm | \"Son, Min Jung / Taesung marine\" <bk321@wsf.co.kr> | cmx2401ex1603.avnet.com
taesungmarine.com
avnet.com
wsf.co.kr
stop-mos.com |
July 11th 2019 | MV ORIENT GLORY | Microsoft - Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml
MAX - malware (ai score=84)
FireEye - Trojan.Zmutzy.802
ClamAV - Email.Phishing.VOF1-6436271-0
Fortinet - W32/Injector.EGKJ!tr
McAfee - Artemis!B785725BB82F
TrendMicro - TrojanSpy.Win32.LOKI.SMDD.hp | \"SEWHA Shipping Co., Ltd.\" <3d3a7@f926693804066cbdd.kr> | No reported targets |
July 11th 2019 | Inqiury of mt gaocheng 3 loading at pasir gudang | MicroWorld-eScan - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen
MAX - malware (ai score=88)
FireEye - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen
Arcabit - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen
ESET-NOD32 - a variant of Win32/GenKryptik.DNAF
Avast - Win32:CrypterX-gen [Trj] | \"leaf\" <shaoyijia@herun.com>
| herun.com
hiworks.co.kr
sewhashipping.co.kr
prodep.ru
|
July 11th 2019 | [ENQUIRY] MT DH CONCORD / TANJUNG LANGSAT | Microsoft - Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos.C!cl
GData - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen
BitDefender - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen
Emsisoft - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen (B)
Arcabit - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen
ESET-NOD32 - a variant of Win32/GenKryptik.DNAF
| 1d1d57@57005ee0ecc1998.com
| No reported targets |
July 11th 2019 | MT Celsius Macau V4240 201905 - Onsan, | Arcabit - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen
Fortinet - W32/GenKryptik.DNAF!tr
ESET-NOD32 - a variant of Win32/Injector.EGOF
Emsisoft - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen (B)
AVG - Win32:CrypterX-gen [Trj]
FireEye - Exploit.SpamMalware-RAR.Gen
McAfee - Artemis!FD792C5 | \"Max Chan\" <040@e261ff1564.com>
| No reported targets |
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