"Please attention!" fake DHL delivery emails contain malware

Filed Under: Malware, Spam

It's another day, which means (almost inevitably) there's another malicious email campaign carrying a fake anti-virus attack.

Once again the bad guys are packaging their attack in an email which claims to come from DHL Delivery Services.

Please attention email pretending to be from DHL

A typical email, which has the subject line "Please attention!", reads as follows:

Dear customer!

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.

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

Please do not reply to this e-mail, it is an unmonitored mailbox!

Thank you,
DHL Delivery Services.

Attached to the email is a file called label.zip, which Sophos detects as Troj/FakeAV-BEG. Even though there is some peculiar wording (and spelling) in the email it's possible that some unwary users might fall into the hacker's trap, and open the malicious attachment.

We are seeing many reports of this attack in our global network of traps right now.

Reports of the malware in Sophos's traps

If you receive one of these emails, don't open the attached file as you could be putting your computer at risk of infection and allowing hackers to compromised your PC.

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About the author

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.