Yes, my intent was not to have knowledgeable persons see all the errors.
I feel that this phish which is in circulation will trap a lot of persons who
are NOT savvy.
The same ones who send emails to "everyone" because the emails tell them to.
I sent this to chase also, so I am not claiming anything other than when viewed in certain browsers,
it can confuse average joes or jills.
I am setting my mail servers to stop this kind of email from getting to one of my customers without
my system marking it as a probable phish.
I have some friends who are not educated in the net and some have filled in information and were
shocked to find money missing from their checking accounts.
This is a serious problem and most phish sites get closed right away, but this one has been live for
at least 5 days already.
I could not forward the actual email, as securityfocus refuses to allow that and returned it to me
as unacceptable.
That is a shame, because the actual email was very misleading as the hypertext was not visible and
appeared only as a "login" prompt
The main problem here is that it uses Google to redirect and therefor is hard
to trace to the real site.
This is becoming more prevalent as Google and others do not qualify the redirects, so there is more
to this problem than just the phish, as they are using other tools to mask the actual link to the
phish site.
Bob
Robin wrote:
Some notable distinctions are:
1. yes, it does say it is an HTTPS address, however,
2. there is no security certificate in the bottom right corner.
3. there is no security certificate information in the properties tab for
this page.
4. the URL does NOT start with www.chase.com
5. the browser even shows the IP rather than Chase.com
6. if you do a whois lookup on the IP at ARIN you'll see its registered in
Latin American/Caribbean registry
7. if you use neotrace pro you'll see that the IP is in Santa Fe De Bogota
8. the are errors on the page.....
Just my two cents..........
Robin Noyes
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob [mailto:Bob@dexis.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 7:20 PM
To: incidents@securityfocus.com
Subject: A pretty neat Chase Phish
This in one of the PHISHES I caught yesterday.
It is still active as of this email
It purports to be Chase Bank and wants me to validate my information,
how clever.
But this is a VERY SOPHISTICATED PHISH --- it looks real and even
simulates an HTTPS address
It does appear different in different browsers, looks most authentic in
IE, Firefox looks pretty bad and non-convincing.
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://200.75.49.126/webpai/webpai/images/chase_
com/index.html
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