Email from DHL? More malware masquerading as missing mail

by Graham Cluley on October 23, 2009 | Comments Off

Filed Under: Malware, Spam

Earlier this week I warned you about a torrent of dangerous emails which were flooding inboxes, posing as messages from DHL and FedEx.

The attacks haven't stopped, but they have slightly morphed their appearance - using different subject lines and filenames for the malicious attachment which contains a Trojan horse.

You can see a brief snapshot of some of today's DHL-related attacks in our spamtraps below:

Malicious emails purporting to come from DHL

Although the filenames and subject lines can differ, the content of the emails is the same, including the mis-spelling of "personaly":

Hello!

The courier company was not able to deliver your parcel by your address.
Cause: Error in shipping address.

You may pickup the parcel at our post office personaly!

Attention!
The shipping label is attached to this e-mail.
Please print this label to get this package at our post office.

Thank you for attention.
DHL Global Forwarding Services.

Of course, these emails do not really come from DHL and you are putting your computer at risk if you open the attachments. Just think to yourself - if DHL are really unable to deliver to your real-life shipping address, is it really like that they would have and use your email address as a method of contact?

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Graham Cluley is senior technology consultant at Sophos. The readers of Computer Weekly voted him security blogger of the year in 2009 and 2010, and he pipped Stephen Fry to the title of "Twitter user of the year" too. Which was nice. He was also named "Best Security Blogger" by the readers of SC Magazine in 2011. You can subscribe to Graham's updates on Facebook, follow him on Twitter and circle him on Google Plus for regular updates.