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Pharmacy spam as a news flash
G Data detects increase in abuse of topical subjects by spammers
Bochum (Germany), 4 May 2010 – Whilst an estimated amount of 3 million spam messages with subject lines about the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajoekull were circulating two weeks ago, G Data now sees exploiting topical current affairs is the new standard procedure with a specific group of spammers.
The security expert identified several subjects that have been abused by spammers that are connected to shady online pharmacies. Using these popular topics in their headlines is a tactic to avoid spam filters and grab the attention of the receiver. These spam messages seem to be sent from Russian e-mail addresses and pretend to be news letters from MSN.
Screenshot: Spam with topical subject line
Who’s behind this campaign?
Analysis of the sites these messages link to shows there are four companies behind the registration of the domains. All used domains have been registered in the last few days.
Screenshot: Canadian Pharmacy website
The identified domains are:
• oftenpush.com
• usuallife.com
• extolbell.com
• peopleeasy.com
• flairfew.com
• sugarspoke.com
• themreply.com [offline]
• seemlychief.com [offline]
• givingvery.com [offline]
• allownine.com [offline]
• quartwin.com [offline]
• maxistood.com [offline]
These domains have been registered by:
• China Springplank Inc (China)
• BIZCN.COM, INC (China)
• PEKING INNOVATIEVE LINKAGE Technology Ltd (China) • 35 Technology Co, Ltd (China)
Alle sites are hosted on the same server in China. However, the server changes. The G Data researchers have found two suspicious servers so far:
119.88.56.123 and 61.136.59.69.
The over 900 analysed subjects have 825 unique last words, all starting with an ‘a’ (examples marked italic in the list below). The use of lexical words at the end of a normal subject line is one countermeasure scammers implement to try to avoid anti-spam filters with the usage of harmless words.
These are some examples of current affairs of the last weeks that were featured in spam messages:
• 200,000 flood Shanghai Expo preview acoustics
• Air travel updates amid volcanic ash addibility
• Alain Robert: Living on the edge adamances
• Apple posts record quarter accordingly
• AT&T unveils Buzz.com aero faratics
• Cairo reporter on the city’s best actifier
• China pays tribute to quake victims acarpous
• China under growing currency pressure alamos
• Chrysler in $143M profit aitch
• Conservatives unveil manifesto acnodes
• Country profile: Georgia aglets
• Cricket: IPL is hit by corruption claims agnails
• Enjoy a glass of Georgian wine acatholic
• Eruption's disruption to business actualist
• Fears volcano chaos will continue advising
• Football: Bayern smash seven goals afters
• Football: Inter fight back to stun Barca accommodated
• Football: Lyon target win over Bayern adenological
• Fraud Case upstages Goldman results agrestic
• Georgia's 47-year-old prima ballerina agednesses
• ‘Glee’ + Madonna = perfection accesoiries
• Goldman Sachs was top Obama donor abdications
• Golf: Obama plays more golf than Bush abietineous
• Golf: Ochoa announces her retirement aerogen
• Guru's family releases a statement adaunt
• Jin and Sun reunite on 'Lost' abilo
• Many teens send 100-plus texts a day acrolith
• Mumbai's most haunted locations accension
• Navy SEAL’s trial opens adonin
• Officials defend ash cloud flight ban acridanv
• On Patrol in Kandahar abelite
• Outsider opens up UK election adjoint
• Poland to hold June 20 vote aiel
• Republic of Georgia's unique ballet afferent
• Sport left grounded by volcano aerophysics
• Striving to play perfect Macau game acidulating
• ‘Sudden’ split for Mel Gibson agrimony
• Susan Boyle writing memoir accouchement
• Test your knowledge of Georgia acetaniside
• UK party sweary campaign adynamy
• UK regulator launches Goldman probe absolve
• Uncorking Georgia's wine heritage acutely
• United in sorrow in Poland afeard
• Unseen Unesco World Heritage Sites airspeed
• Volcano ash affects air travel acoluthic
• Warsaw: 1,000 miles from home absurdist
• What will Facebook announce today? Acinary
• Who loves the Democrats? afterwhile
• Wind farm fight splits Cape Cod adjuratory
• World's top woman golfer retires acidic
• Zaza Pachulia: Georgia basketball hero acrobatholithic
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