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Phishing Email Alerts

Catch of the Day: Phishing Email Analysis Tools
Chef’s Special: Amex Phish

Also Serving: ChatGPT Phish

Examples of clever phish that made it past my spam filters and into my inbox. Some are sent by clients or readers like you, and other reliable sources on the Internet.

You can send phishing samples to me at phish@wyzguys.com.

My intention is to provide a warning and show current examples of phishing scams, related articles, and education about how these scams and exploits work, and how to detect them in your inbox. If the pictures are too small or extend off the page, double clicking the image will display them in a photo viewer app.

I thought this was a worthy collection of phishing and email investigation tools, and added them to the Friday Phish Fry

Phishing Email Analysis Tools

By Mohammed Eissa via LinkedIn

1-Email Header Analysis >>
– MXToolbox: https://mxtoolbox.com/EmailHeaders.aspx
– Amazon: https://mha.azurewebsites.net/
– MailHeader: https://mailheader.org/

2-URL / IP Reputation Check
– Virustotal >> https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/search
– URLScan >> https://urlscan.io/
– Talosintelligence >> https://www.talosintelligence.com/
– AbuseIPdb >> https://www.abuseipdb.com/
– IPinfo: https://ipinfo.io/
– Check Phish >> https://checkphish.ai/

3-File / Attachment / Malware Analysis
– File Hash check >> https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/search
– Anyrun Sandboxing >> https://any.run/
– Hybrid-Analysis Sandboxing >> https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/
– Joesandbox >> https://www.joesandbox.com/#windows
– Cuckoo Sandbox >> https://cuckoo.cert.ee/
– VMRay >> https://www.vmray.com/try-vmray-products/
– Triage >> https://tria.ge/dashboard

4-Whois domain record
– Centralops >> https://centralops.net/co/
– Domaintools >> https://whois.domaintools.com/

5-Phishing analysis tool
– Phish Tool >>https://www.phishtool.com/

6 – Miscellaneous
– Browser Sandbox >> https://www.browserling.com/
– EML file opener >> https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

7-What to do >> https://www.howtogeek.com/437513/what-should-you-do-if-you-receive-a-phishing-email/

Humans are still better at creating phishing emails than AI — for now

AI-generated phishing emails, including ones created by ChatGPT, present a potential new threat for security professionals.

American Express Phish

I received this email on Wednesday, and by Thursday morning the redirection and landing page was already taken down.  The Blue Team is certainly getting better and quicker at takedowns!

A few clues in the email.  American Express is missing the second s (Expres) and the email source account is on the comcast.net email domain, and they missed the ed in restrict.  The Log In Now link resolves to https://tinyurl.com/viso2adk3md which is redirected to https://example.com/  This domain is being used as a sinkhole by the defenders I suspect.

Here’s the final landing page.  This page is hosted by IANA as an example page.  You can see it at https://www.iana.org/domains/example

VirusTotal lists this as malicious.

Since I don’t have an American Express account, it was easy for me to spot this fake phish.  Not the best job writing the email either.  They could have gotten it perfect by using ChatGPT.