eScan cautions on malicious attacks through WhatsApp

BANGALORE, INDIA: The latest bunch of malicious mails making rounds is in form of an email which intimates the users about a pending WhatsApp Voicemail.

The probability of users falling for these types of malwares is quite high, a eScan release said on Tuesday adding that the voice- mail email encourages you to click on the link provided within the message into your Inbox and the email when opened displays similar text as below.

MD5 : 1c4d9a91717747517ef1700fb259ea7c

VirusTotal : View here.

Malwr Analysis : View here. (sample shared)

Anubis Analysis : View here.

However, it is not necessary that these types of mails will redirect to a malware site, it also does a redirect to Fake Pharma in certain cases.

hxxp://pm118.edu.lodz.pl/reflexive.html redirects to hxxp://viagrafitness.com/

This seems to be the first time that fake pharma and malware guys are using the same template for sending emails, the release added.