PHISHING IN SEASON TAX TIME MALWARE, PHISHING AND FRAUD
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1 PHISHING IN SEASON TAX TIME MALWARE, PHISHING AND FRAUD April 2013 As cybercriminals will have it, phishing attacks are quite the seasonal trend. It seems that every April, after showing a slight decline in phishing in the first quarter of the year, they wake up and get back to work on vast spam campaigns that take advantage of tax-filing season. This time of year brings a few flavors of spam into the mailboxes of online users, including malware attachments that appear as communications such as tax statements or unclaimed refunds. In this special highlight, we will cover the main types of online threats we often see during the tax filing season, most of which are already rampant in the wild. Tax Authority Phishing Themes Although phishing is most often a direct attack, targeting account holders by presenting them with messages from their online banking provider, indirect phishing can be just as efficient, if not more. In these scams, phishers will create an appearing to come from the local tax authority, encouraging taxpayers to browse to a (phishing) page where they will be tricked into believing they are opening an online account, updating their personal information, contesting a fraudulent statement or receiving a refund. Phishers use the taxation entity s credibility and authority in order to ask victims to part with their personal information, address and phone details as well as account information, access to online and phone banking, as well as complete credit card details. Those attacks can be very elaborate and eventually allow criminals to devise a wider array of identity theft scenarios, including loan and credit card application, fraudulent ecommerce purchases, fraudulent tax filing, and bank account takeover. FRAUD REPORT
2 Tax-Themed Phishing Elaborate phishing page designed to steal access credentials and personal financial information Malware Hidden In Tax-Themed s Another very popular threat during tax season is malware-laden , purporting to come from a tax authority, usually with a threatening message urging the user to download and open an attachment. The file is actually a Trojan executable, which can sometimes be revealed by simply looking at the file extension, like in the image below. Note that the file extension is.pdf followed by.exe a Trojan executable file. One of the malware campaigns currently active in the wild is spreading the Brazilian Banker Trojan ( Bancos ) under the guise of a message from the fiscal authority in Brazil. Tax-Themed Malware Spam purporting to come from tax authorities, urging users to download and open an attachment. page 2
3 Here too, it is easy to see that the fake file extension is not really a Microsoft Word document (.docx), but rather an.exe hiding the Trojan s executable. Tax-Themed Malware Spam purporting to come from Brazilian tax authorities, urging users to download and open the concealed Bancos Trojan Online Tax-Filing Scams Since tax authorities have been allowing taxpayers to file their annual declarations with online service providers, criminals have been increasingly interested in phishing for access credentials to victims user accounts in hopes of rerouting the refund payments that may be due. In many cases, fraudsters check if the potential victim has already filed the return, and if not, they will proceed to filing a false declaration in the victim s name, using numbers that will result in a refund, and then attempt to have the expected payment sent to a prepaid card or an account they control. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service reported it saw an 80% increase in tax-return fraud between 2011 and 2012 a number that is likely to continue growing. One of the present campaigns running in the wild falsely alerts taxpayers that their return was rejected, all while delivering a Trojan attachment (.exe) in the guise of an archived file (.zip). Online Filing Scams to tax filers that a refund has been rejected and lures them to download a file with hidden malware. Taxpayer User Account Takeover Attempts In this last example of tax-themed online threats, some riminals, usually operating locally and versed with the regional processes, will attempt to phish a taxpayer for his access credentials to the tax authority s web services. page 3
4 From there, the criminals will attempt to gain insight into amounts possibly due to the victim, find out if they already filed a tax return, attempt to modify the account refund(s) should be sent to, or in other cases, create a fake account with an online tax filing service to submit a bogus return in order to yield a refund. The actual phishing can be carried out online, by directing taxpayers to click and browse to a hyperlink inside an , or by opening the attack locally a local HTML phishing scam that will appear on the victim s PC. In the following image, the taxpayer received an HMTL file inside the containing the phishing page. The URL that will appear when opening that file, will show a local path on the user s PC. Once harvested, data from such standalone attacks will end up being sent to the phisher thereafter. Tax Authority Online Service Takeover Attempt purporting to come from a tax authority, hosting a standalone phishing attack to harvest taxpayer information. CONCLUSION Although phishing attack numbers can fluctuate monthly and depend on factors that are harder to predict, trends such as annual tax filing season remain rather consistent. Tax-filing season is probably one of the most popular times of the year for phishers to hit taxpayers with spam and malware infections since tax authorities can be a driver that would make people react quickly to emotional triggers such as: Entitlement expecting a tax refund and wishing to receive it ASAP Anxiety being faced with the (false) accusation of a rejected/fraudulent statement and wanting to rectify the issue Sense of obligation having to comply with the civil obligation to report to the taxation authorities In terms of the time-span for this seasonal trend, tax deadlines typically fall on April 15, but fraudsters are known to begin sending this type of spam in February and continue spreading the campaigns well into May and June, in the shape of fake returns and bogus rejected/fraudulent statements. This phenomenon is often reflected in phishing attack spikes recorded annually through Q2. Just as financial institutions have been active in educating online users, tax agencies have also started similar campaigns to warn consumers to be alert during tax season. page 4
5 Phishing Attacks per Month RSA identified 24,347 phishing attacks launched worldwide in March, marking an 11% decrease in attack volume from the previous month, yet a 27% increase yearover-year in comparison to March Mar Apr May Jul 12 Jun Aug Nov 12 Oct 12 Sep Dec 12 Jan Mar 13 Feb 13 Source: RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center Number of Brands Attacked In March, 260 brands were targeted in phishing attacks, marking a 1% increase from February. Of the 260 targeted brands, 46% suffered five attacks or less Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb 13 Mar 13 Source: RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center page 5
6 US Bank Types Attacked U.S. nationwide banks saw a slight decline in attack volume in March decreasing 6%. However, credit unions saw a relatively sharp increase, more than doubling from 8% to 17%. On occasion, phishers like to change up their attack methods and go after less targeted financial institutions, attempting to see if online/phone banking security measures with these banks could be more easily exploited % 7% 20% 10% 11% 11% 9% 9% 12% 6% 15% 8% 17% 30% 11% 18% 12% 15% 15% 14% 14% 9% 15% 15% 23% 23% 58% 82% 62% 78% 74% 74% 77% 77% 79% 79% 70% 69% 60% Source: RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center Mar 13 Feb 13 Jan 13 Dec 12 Nov 12 Oct 12 Sep 12 Aug 12 Jul 12 Jun 12 May 12 Apr 12 Mar 12 a Australia South Korea Canada China India 4% Germany UK Top Countries by Attack Volume The U.S. was targeted by about half of all phishing volume in March. The UK accounted for 13% of attack volume while South Africa experienced an increase with 9% of attack volume. After the UK, the Netherlands was the country in Europe that endured the second highest attack volume in March at 5%. Canada 4% Netherlands 5% South Africa 9t% United Kingdom 13% U.S. 49% 38 Other Countries 16% page 6
7 a US S Africa China India 3% Italy Canada Netherlands India Bra Top Countries by Attacked Brands U.S. brands were once again most targeted by phishing in March, experiencing 27% of attack volume. Together, brands in the UK, Australia, India and Brazil accounted for 25% of attack volume. United Kingdom 12% Australia 5% Brazil 4% 39 Other Countries 48% U.S. 27% a US S Africa Netherlands 3% China Italy Colombia 3% Canada Netherlands India B United Kingdom 4% Top Hosting Countries Canada 5% In March, the U.S. hosted just over half of all global phishing attacks, followed by Germany 6% Germany, Canada and the UK. Colombia hosted 3% of phishing attacks during the month. U.S. 51% 57 Other Countries 28% page 7
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