Charter flight reservation emails carry dangerous malware payload

Once again, email users are being reminded to be wary of unsolicited email attachments – as a criminal gang spams out an attack designed to infect Windows computers.

The emails, which all have a subject line of “Charter flight reservation”, claim to be related to the reservation of a charter flight for multiple people.

However, attached to the emails is a file called Report-D9935.zip that contains malware.

Just as with another malware campaign seen this week, the messages can vary and spelling mistakes appear to have been deliberately and semi-randomly included in an attempt to avoid detection by rudimentary filters.

Here is a small sample of the many different message bodies that we have seen:

Please confirm your resrevation of charter flight.
Your secreatry has reserved a charter flight for 55 persons. We have caluclate a price for rent this trip with a Airbus A320 aircraft. More informaiton you can get from attached booklet…

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