Like most people in the UK at this time of the year I’ve been doing some on-line shopping lately. Consequently I’m waiting for several deliveries. Some delivery companies (DHL are a good example) actually allow you to track your parcels on-line. In order to do this they usually send out text or email messages giving the tracking ID. Today I received an email purporting to come from UKMail. That email message said:
UKMail Info!
Your parcel has not been delivered to your address November 23, 2015, because nobody was at home.
Please view the information about your parcel, print it and go to the post office to receive your package.Warranties
UKMail expressly disclaims all conditions, guarantees and warranties, express or implied, in respect of the Service. Where the law prevents such exclusion and implies conditions and warranties into this contract, where legally permissible the liability of UKMail for breach of such condition,
guarantee or warranty is limited at the option of UKMail to either supplying the Service again or paying the cost of having the service supplied again. If you don’t receive a package within 30 working days UKMail will charge you for it’s keeping. You can find any information about the procedure and conditions of parcel keeping in the nearest post office.Best regards,
UKMail
I /very/ nearly opened the attached file. That is probably the closest I have come to reacting incorrectly to a phishing attack. Nice try guys. And a very good piece of social engineering given the time of year.
Virustotal suggests that the attached file is a malicious word macro container. Interestingly though, only 7 of the 55 AV products that Virustotal uses identified the attachment as malicious. And even they couldn’t agree on the identity of the malware. I suspect that it may be a relatively new piece of code.