Skimmers and Phishing

Labs Note

Recently, we shared a post about a network of domains used in a JavaScript credit card stealing malware campaign. These domains are all hosted on the same server with the IP 8.208.15.67.

In addition to the domains used by the skimmers, the server also had two sites whose domains were clearly created for phishing two Canadian banks:

rbcroyalbank[.]com.ng – Real address of the Royal Bank of Canada is rbcroyalbank.com

www1-bmo[.]com.co – Online banking for the Bank of Montreal is www1.bmo.com.

Given that the goal of malware on e-commerce sites and bank phishing is to obtain payment details and steal money, it’s quite natural to see the same bad actors participating in both types of attacks.

Moreover, as Group IB wrote in April about the previous wave of these JS skimmers, this campaign is known for using fake Magento login pages on domains mimicking the domain names of the online stores they tried to compromise. So phishing and credit card skimmers complement each other very well.

Unlike other domains, where registrant details were hidden by privacy protection services, the rbcroyalbank[.]com.ng domain had public WHOIS information.

Creation Date: 2019-06-10
...
Registrant ID: 1319589-NIRA
Registrant Name: Julio Jaime
Registrant Organization: Media Lend, LLC
Registrant Email: medialand.regru@gmail.com

Most likely, this information is [mostly] fake—but it was enough to find another batch of phishing domains.

Fake Data:
While the data says the address is in Indiana, the zip code and city provided are in New Jersey.

The email “medialand.regru@gmail.com” suggests a connection to a Russian domain name registrar reg.ru. Most likely, it’s a dedicated email address used specifically for registering new domain names.

We used DomainBigData to search if anything else was associated with that medialand.regru account and found a whole bunch of other [mostly] phishing domains registered in 2019.
Here are just some of them:

Facebook
facebook-bay[.]com  2019-03-29  reg.com
facebook-s3[.]com   2019-04-04  reg.com
facebook-s2[.]com   2019-04-04  reg.com
facebook-s1[.]com   2019-04-04  reg.com
facebook-listings[.]com 2019-03-30  reg.com
facebook-listing[.]com  2019-03-30  reg.com
facebook-itm[.]com  2019-03-30  reg.com
facebook-state[.]com    2019-03-29  reg.com
facebook-restore[.]com  2019-03-23  reg.com
restore-facebook[.]com  2019-03-23  reg.com
facebook-area[.]com     2019-03-17  reg.com
facebook-ss[.]com   2019-03-29  reg.com
recover-facebook[.]com  2019-03-23  reg.com
facebook-st[.]com   2019-03-29  reg.com
facebook-secure[.]com   2019-03-23  reg.com
static-facebook[.]com   2019-03-23  reg.com
facebook-us[.]com   2019-03-28  reg.com
facebook-s6[.]com   2019-04-20  reg.com
facebook-s5[.]com   2019-04-20  reg.com
facebook-s4[.]com   2019-04-20  reg.com

MyEtherWallet
myetherevvalliet[.]com  2019-07-21  reg.com
Bank phishing
carrefourbanque-compte[.]com    2019-06-18  reg.com
www-1royalbank[.]com    2019-05-29  reg.com
clickwebsite-rbc[.]com  2019-05-22  reg.com
tangerine-en[.]com  2019-05-07  reg.com
meine-db-account-i73983479[.]com    2019-04-08  reg.com
acc7201-statement-online[.]com  2019-04-01  reg.com
postecartaonline[.]com  2019-03-26  reg.com
client-sofinco[.]net    2019-03-01  reg.com
olb-secure[.]com    2019-02-20  reg.com
mabanquepro-bnpparibas[.]com    2019-03-17  reg.com
bmo-onlinebanking[.]com     2019-05-08  reg.com
secure-banking-updt[.]com   2019-02-22  reg.com
com-cgi-bin-3t5ufkygkl56-www-desjardins[.]com   2019-04-25  reg.com

PayPal
limited-services-paypal[.]com   2019-05-20  reg.com
restricted-users-paypai[.]com   2019-06-28  reg.com

Mobile carriers 
my3-bill[.]com  2019-04-18  reg.com
three-mybilling[.]com   2019-03-28  reg.com
threebilling[.]com  2019-03-08  reg.com
myvodafone-billing[.]com    2019-03-12  reg.com
account-billing[.]com   2019-03-15  reg.com

Apple
apple-appield[.]com     2019-04-23  reg.com
apple-restore[.]com     2019-03-28  reg.com

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/fb934dd5d574344759251678dd3c3b183f83fbe1cfb652201b155ee5c69a5476/detection

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