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 September 8, 2019 to September 20, 2019.
First Seen |
Subject Line Used |
Malware Detections |
Sending Email |
Targets |
September 13th 2019 | Port agency appointment for M/V \"Star Elegance | GData - Gen:Variant.Symmi.83189
BitDefender - Gen:Variant.Symmi.83189
McAfee - Fareit-FPW!6F18D700F615
Panda - Generic Suspicious,MAX - malware (ai score=83)
Emsisoft - Gen:Variant.Symmi.83189 (B),FireEye - Gen:Variant.Symmi.83189,Arcabit - Trojan.Symmi. | Yang Ming Shipping <885d3b5fa9@3b0fe7eabbb.com> | No reported targets |
September 13th 2019 | MV CEBU ISLAND / VESSEL\'S SCHEDULE AT DONGHAE | Emsisoft - Gen:Variant.Symmi.83189 (B)
McAfee - Fareit-FPW!6F18D700F615
FireEye - Gen:Variant.Symmi.83189
MAX - malware (ai score=87)
Panda - Trj/GdSda.A,BitDefender - Gen:Variant.Symmi.83189
Rising - Trojan.Injector!1.B459 (CLASSIC)
GData - Gen:Variant. | tokotramp <bd336241a@2857bc54121e1ea49.jp> | No reported targets |
September 13th 2019 | Inqiury of mt gaocheng 3 loading at pasir gudang | Microsoft - Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml
Rising - Trojan.Injector!1.B459 (CLASSIC)
Panda - Trj/GdSda.A,MAX - malware (ai score=88)
BitDefender - Gen:Variant.Symmi.83189
FireEye - Gen:Variant.Symmi.83189
Arcabit - Trojan.Symmi.D144F5
McAfee - Fareit-FPW!6F18 | leaf <3e5cd82f5@1c7c9.com> | No reported targets |
September 13th 2019 | =?utf-8?q?MV=2E_EASTERN_BEGONIA_=28Voy=2E005=29_=E2=80=93_PALANGGA_//_FDA?= | MAX - malware (ai score=89)
Panda - Trj/GdSda.A,BitDefender - Gen:Variant.Symmi.83189
Microsoft - Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml
Arcabit - Trojan.Symmi.D144F5
Rising - Trojan.Injector!1.B459 (CLASSIC)
Emsisoft - Gen:Variant.Symmi.83189 (B)
McAfee - Fareit-FPW | Sigma Shipping <caf9@bc783ef46e69.com> | No reported targets |
September 13th 2019 | Mv. DREAM STAR //CTM REQUEST; ETA 20th SEPT 2019 | GData - Gen:Variant.Razy.194620
Cyren - W32/VBKrypt.MF.gen!Eldorado
Arcabit - Trojan.Razy.D2F83C
Microsoft - Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml
MAX - malware (ai score=85)
BitDefender - Gen:Variant.Razy.194620
Emsisoft - Gen:Variant.Razy.194620 (B)
| NMT China Co., Ltd. <ac743ab0f05@16cc0a95753.com> | No reported targets |
September 13th 2019 | Port agency appointment for M/V \"Star Elegance\" | FireEye - Gen:Variant.Razy.194620
GData - Gen:Variant.Razy.194620
Microsoft - Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml
BitDefender - Gen:Variant.Razy.194620
Emsisoft - Gen:Variant.Razy.194620 (B)
Arcabit - Trojan.Razy.D2F83C
Cyren - W32/VBKrypt.MF.gen!Eldorado | Yang Ming Shipping <e84@3b0fe7eabbb.com> | No reported targets |
September 13th 2019 | M/V XIN HAN-ARRIVAL NOTICE | Rising - Trojan.Injector/Autoit!1.BB82
Kaspersky - HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
FireEye - Trojan.GenericKD.32444902
MicroWorld-eScan - Trojan.GenericKD.32444902
NANO-Antivirus - Trojan.Win32.Mlw.fzazsv
Arcabit - Trojan.Generic.D1EF11E6 | \"RMS MARINE & OFFSHORE SERVICE (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD.\" | zimmoah.com
rmsmarineservice.sg
cloud.zimmoah.com |
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