{"id":1474,"date":"2015-02-22T22:40:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T22:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2015-02-22T22:40:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T22:40:16","slug":"spam-email-i-have-sent-you-the-account-report-please-download-and-view-the-attachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/random\/spam-email-i-have-sent-you-the-account-report-please-download-and-view-the-attachment","title":{"rendered":"Spam Email : I have sent you the account report. Please download and view the attachment."},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Recently a spam message with the following body go through a Spam Filter. On checking it looks like the sender has been infected with a virus which then BCC’ed all their emails with the following body message and itself as an attachment ( to spread )<\/p>\r\n

I have sent you the account report. Please download and view the attachment.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

The message had an attachment of the following \u00a0:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Attachment Notice<\/strong>

The following attachment was removed from the associated email message.<\/p><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n

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File Name<\/p><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n

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account_report1902.zip<\/strong><\/p><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n

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File Size<\/p><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n

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11219 Bytes<\/strong><\/p><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody><\/table>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n

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Attachment management policies limit the types of attachments that are allowed to pass through the email infrastructure.

Attachments are monitored and audited for security reasons.<\/p><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody><\/table>\r\n

The above is actually Exchange’s Attachment Filter removing the Zip file ( virus ) luckily the sending server blocked the .zip from sending , but any good incoming filter should of been able to block this!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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