Spear Phishing Handlers for Username/Password
Reviewing my ISC mail inbox, I noticed that I had been receiving multiple phishing email that were very similar. Putting my cursor over each embedded pictures, I noticed the domain involved was the same for all of them. I copied the URL and started checking around for known threat intel on ipfs[.]io against various sites and found on urlscan.io [1], there was over 10000+ samples listed.
All these emails are asking the recipient to login to capture email address and password and the entries are Secured by Norton!
First Email (Received 2 copies with the same URL)
https://ipfs[.]io/ipfs/Qma2GtsUgbKKCxnLNjZv8euBKM1BK7Y48zX3BBjUQqpc26?filename=OWGH%20PIU1%20PJHMD%20QHGK%20UUG%20QGUP%20WPOKG.htm#handlers@isc.sans.edu
Second Email
https://ipfs[.]io/ipfs/QmaU5FjjeFiDzWs2s6gZ5SyPqL2wvQa2652LHPb3d1U3XC?filename=QUPG%20WGWG%20WDOUH%20UDGW%20URZ%20PKDB%20UKLM.htm#handlers@isc.sans.edu
Third Email
https://ipfs[.]io/ipfs/Qma2GtsUgbKKCxnLNjZv8euBKM1BK7Y48zX3BBjUQqpc26?filename=OWGH%20PIU1%20PJHMD%20QHGK%20UUG%20QGUP%20WPOKG.htm#handlers@isc.sans.edu
Indicator
ipfs[.]io
Final Word
Last, a blog post by Lance Spitzner published on the 13 Feb 2023 about "Phishing - It's No Longer About Malware (or Even Email)" [5] highlight some of the changes on the phishing goals and some of the common indicators worth reading including two indicators are no longer recommended: misspellings and hovering of the link "except for highly technical audiences. One problem with this method is that you have to teach people how to decode a URL, which can be a confusing, time consuming, and technical skill."[5]
[1] https://urlscan.io/search/#page.domain%3Aipfs.io
[2] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/2c8a881b916d2396ff68ed18c41a6b8a13ba8e869de65d87a23b869a95fd0c63?nocache=1
[3] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/ipfs.io/detection
[4] https://cybergordon.com/result.html?id=12ef23f1-a775-4619-81ec-c7aaaae7e4a4
[5] https://www.sans.org/blog/phishing-its-no-longer-about-malware-or-even-email/
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Guy Bruneau IPSS Inc.
My Handler Page
Twitter: GuyBruneau
gbruneau at isc dot sans dot edu
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<a hreaf="https://technolytical.com/">the social network</a> is described as follows because they respect your privacy and keep your data secure. The social networks are not interested in collecting data about you. They don't care about what you're doing, or what you like. They don't want to know who you talk to, or where you go.
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