Scammers began adopting cloud services such as Azure, AWS, Alibaba, and Google Docs and others for their activities. They use them to place their malicious crafts and mislead gullible dummies to get access to bank accounts or information about credit cards. Recently I received text message on my cell phone. The message suggested me to redeem my Costco award.
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Instead of fqdn link had IP address and not secure HTTP protocol which also looked suspicious for money related operations.
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The phishing site itself proposed to deposit reward on the bank account attempting to reveal bank credentials.
Simple whois discovery shows that 52.228.33.59 IP address belongs to Microsoft:
# whois whois 52.228.33.59
No whois server is known for this kind of object.
root@smike19-VirtualBox:~# whois 52.228.33.59
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# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/tou/
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# If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
# https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/inaccuracy_reporting/
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# Copyright 1997-2021, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd.
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NetRange: 52.224.0.0 – 52.255.255.255
CIDR: 52.224.0.0/11
NetName: MSFT
NetHandle: NET-52-224-0-0-1
Parent: NET52 (NET-52-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Assignment
OriginAS:
Organization: Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)
RegDate: 2015-11-24
Updated: 2015-11-24
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/52.224.0.0
OrgName: Microsoft Corporation
OrgId: MSFT
Address: One Microsoft Way
City: Redmond
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98052
Country: US
RegDate: 1998-07-10
Updated: 2017-01-28
Comment: To report suspected security issues specific to traffic emanating from Microsoft online services, including the distribution of malicious content or other illicit or illegal material through a Microsoft online service, please submit reports to:
Comment: * https://cert.microsoft.com.
Comment:
Comment: For SPAM and other abuse issues, such as Microsoft Accounts, please contact:
Comment: * abuse@microsoft.com.
Comment:
Comment: To report security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and services, please contact:
Comment: * secure@microsoft.com.
Comment:
Comment: For legal and law enforcement-related requests, please contact:
Comment: * msndcc@microsoft.com
Comment:
Comment: For routing, peering or DNS issues, please
Comment: contact:
Comment: * IOC@microsoft.com
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/MSFT
OrgTechHandle: MRPD-ARIN
OrgTechName: Microsoft Routing, Peering, and DNS
OrgTechPhone: +1-425-882-8080
OrgTechEmail: IOC@microsoft.com
OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/MRPD-ARIN
OrgAbuseHandle: MAC74-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Microsoft Abuse Contact
OrgAbusePhone: +1-425-882-8080
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@microsoft.com
OrgAbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/MAC74-ARIN
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# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# available at: https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/tou/
#
# If you see inaccuracies in the results, please report at
# https://www.arin.net/resources/registry/whois/inaccuracy_reporting/
#
# Copyright 1997-2021, American Registry for Internet Numbers, Ltd.
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I sent report to Microsoft about that unsafe site and about 30 minutes later that malicious HTTP server was down.