DHL Trojan Spam

Did you get an email with the following text recently, or something similar, claiming to be from DHL:

Unfortunately we failed to deliver the postal package you have sent on the 11th of July in time because the addressee’s address is incorrect. Please print out the invoice copy attached and collect the package at our department.

It had a subject line of “DHL Delivery Problem Number 95744″.

At the it came through, I was expecting a major delivery from DHL so my heart sank at the thought that there’d been a communication breakdown. It’s always the same, drives you insane…

But, of course, I kept a level head and was within a nanosecond suspicious of the email as this was supposed to be a delivery problem regarding a package I had sent. I hadn’t sent anything.

I googled the the text in the email and hit a German website where the headings and stand out words made it obvious this was a known spam/scam/trojan. Here’s the machine translation, which gives you the gist of what to watch out for:

DHL Spam with Trojaner D25a0335d.zip: Who receives DHL Delivery problem of NR and an attached number combination since this morning enamels with the lines for reference text, this should leave please unopened and ideally immediately delete. Naturally these enamels do not come from DHL, but times again of any criminal Spammern, which try, you a nice Trojaner to under-be jubilant… thus ask caution! Our virus scanners do not have in the packed file D25a0335d.zip threat seen, however after that unpack emerged the alleged Excel document of D25a0335d.exe very fast as the actual harming code of the DHL Trojaners…

Weirdly, there wasn’t actually an attachment to the alleged DHL email I received, so nothing to Trojanize my computer, thankfully. But, it’s another phish to watch out for.