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Fake Delta Email Leads to Sirefef, Fake AV

27
Jun
2012

There’s a fake Delta airlines email in circulation at the moment which comes with a zip attached, named “Ticket_Delta_Airlines_IN2139.zip”

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The text reads:

Hello, E-TICKET / EH065894335
SEAT / 77E/ZONE 2
DATE / TIME 20 JUNE, 2012, 09:55 AM
ARRIVING / Virginia Beach
FORM OF PAYMENT / CC
TOTAL PRICE / 276.42 USD
REF / EF.5709 ST / OK
BAG / 4PC

Your bought ticket is attached to the letter as a scan document. You can print your ticket. Thank you for using our airline company services. Delta Air Lines.

The zip contains an assortment of nasties – running the executable inside would infect it with Sirefef and (after 15 to 30 minutes or a reboot) the WinWebSecurity: Live Security Rogue, which is – as you can see below – a piece of Fake AV.

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VIPRE detects this as Dropper.Win32.Dapato.pj!1a.

Christopher Boyd (Thanks to Patrick for finding this).

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