What do the Targeted Attack emails look like?	Posted by Mikko @ 14:56 GMT

Over the years, we have multiple times posted examples of what kind of booby-trapped document files have been used in targeted (espionage) attacks.

For example:

• Targeted examples
  
• New set of bait files
  
• H1N1 Themed Targeted Attack
  
• Intelligence Sector Hit by a Targeted Attack
  
• Targeted Malware Attacks Against Pro-Tibet Groups
  
• On-going Targeted Attacks Against US Military Contractors

However, we've rarely shown how these documents were delivered to the targeted, i.e. what the emails looked like.

For that kind of information, we can recommend you to visit a blog called Contagio Malware Dump.

This blog, run by Mila & co analyses targeted attacks in detail, typically showing the original spoofed emails that started the attacks.

Some good examples below — some of them are quite convincing. Would you have opened the PDFs?







More at: contagiodump.blogspot.com