Bogus Amazon.com Orders of 55-Inch TV Sets Used to Spread Malware

snoopy · Jun 3, 2013

Bogus Amazon.com Orders of 55-Inch TV Sets Used to Spread Malware

Earlier this week, a legitimate-looking order confirmation notification for a 55-inch Sony LED TV set, apparently coming from Amazon, landed in one of our inboxes. At the time, we didn’t make much of it because there weren’t any reports about a widespread spam campaign. However, it turns out that the email is in fact part of a massive spam campaign designed to distribute a piece of malware.

Conrad Longmore of Dynamoo’s Blog has identified at least two malware-serving domains to which recipients of these phony Amazon order confirmations have been lured to.

On Friday, security firm Bitdefender also published a report on the campaign.
According to Bitdefender experts, the product mentioned in the bogus order confirmations is always a 55-inch TV set, but its make and model differ from one email to the other.

Here are just a few of the subject lines identified by the security solutions provider:

- Amazon.com order of Vizio G55UH4030 55-Inch
- Amazon.com order of Sony S554P3030 55-Inch
- Amazon.com order of Akai NML55GUG030 55-Inch
- Amazon.com order of Samsung UN55HQ5010 55-Inch
- Amazon.com order of Toshiba TB55QX5030 55-Inch
- Amazon.com order of Sanyo I55TZ4050 55-Inch
- Amazon.com order of Panasonic UN55EH6010 55-Inch
- Amazon.com order of LG A55LG27020 55-Inch
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