PayPal phishing in attachments
Yesterday MX Lab reported regarding a phishing email that has no URL but instead an attached HTML document with a web form included. Since then we see more similar cases and also PayPal is subject to this technique. The senders address shows us www.paypal.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it but this is spoofed. The email was sent from 69.128.90.226, an [...]


Yesterday MX Lab reported regarding a phishing email that has no URL but instead an attached HTML document with a web form included. Since then we see more similar cases and also PayPal is subject to this technique. The senders address shows us “www.paypal.com” < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > but this is spoofed. The email was sent from 69.128.90.226, an IP address in the US, pointing to mail.dandlequipment.com.

The body of the email:

To make sure everything is in order,please download the PayPal Security Account Verification and fill in all the required data for verfication.

The actual webpage:

The webform makes a POST to hxxp://0xD5.0xC3.0xDF.0xA9/paypalverification.php/.


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