Vessel Impersonation 08 18 2019

3434104773?profile=RESIZE_710xWeekly 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

3434098172?profile=RESIZE_710xFigure 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.

3434103210?profile=RESIZE_710xFigure 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 August 5, 2019 to August 18, 2019.

 

First Seen

 

Subject Line Used

 

Malware Detections

 

Sending Email

 

Targets

August 5th 2019

RE: M.V. GLORY WISDOM discharging about 1,000mt of H-BEAM in Batam,

Ikarus - Trojan-Ransom.GandCrab

 

VBA32 - BScope.TrojanRansom.Crusis

 

McAfee - Artemis!A3BD4117C10C

 

F-Secure - Trojan.TR/AD.Fareit.eaibe

 

Avira - TR/AD.Fareit.eaibe  

Glory Navigation Co., Ltd.

<sinclair@drylnewby.ga>

gloryship.com

 

huter.com

 

drylnewby.ga

 

August 6th 2019

Spare parts Inquiry for MV American Bulker

Arcabit - Exploit.CVE-2017-11882.Gen,

 

Emsisoft - Exploit.CVE-2017-11882.Gen (B),

 

BitDefender - Exploit.CVE-2017-11882.Gen,

 

MAX - malware (ai score=84),

 

Kaspersky - HEUR:Exploit.MSOffice.Generic,

 

ZoneAlarm - HEUR:Exploit.MSOffice.Generic,

C/E Ranel G. Mendoza <9ed08@425426c224fe0c.ph>

049b.com

 

425426c224fe0c.ph

 

August 8th 2019

MV. TRITON SWAN - AGENCY APPOINTMENT LETTER

DrWeb - JS.DownLoader.1225

 

Sophos - Mal/DrodZp-A

 

NANO-Antivirus  - Trojan.Script.Heuristic

Operation <7cd421d@b6d8485888f3.net>

30718da8.eg

August 8th 2019

MV OCEAN PASSION / Port Agency Appointment

Ikarus,- Trojan.Crypter

 

Microsoft - Trojan:Script/Oneeva.A!ml

 

McAfee - Artemis!2DC85E54AABC

 

Sophos - Mal/RarMal-C

 

Rising - Trojan.Generic

Jisung Shipping Co., Ltd

<bkc@fussel.com.cn>

danielle.gq

 

mabong.co.kr

 

poin.com

August 11th 2019

MV DA TONG YUN VOY 40 AGENT APPOINTMEN

Cyren - CVE-2017-11882.C.gen!Camelot

 

Emsisoft - Exploit.CVE-2017-11882.Gen (B)

 

TrendMicro-HouseCall - TROJ_CVE20171182.SM

 

Zoner - Probably W97NativeOnly,Avira - EXP/CVE-2017-11882.Gen

 

F-Secure - Exploit.EXP/CVE-2017-11882.Gen

 

Baidu - Win32.Exploit.CVE-20

Liu Huisheng(COSCO SHIPPING CARRIER LTD)  <ab735@5d4e13.com>

30718da8.eg

August 12th 2019

MV. TRITON SWAN - AGENCY APPOINTMENT LETTER

DrWeb - JS.DownLoader.1225

 

Cyren - Trojan.BMJI-8

 

ESET-NOD32 - JS/TrojanDownloader.Agent.TTC

 

ZoneAlarm - HEUR:Trojan.Script.Alien.gen

 

Antivirus - Trojan.Script.Heuristic-js.iacgm - NANO

 

McAfee - Artemis!30078163224E

Operation <7cd421d@b6d8485888f3.net>

b6d8485888f3.net

 

963212c1fc.com

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