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Visitors of tax return e-file service may have downloaded malware

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APRIL 6, 2023

A Reddit user encountered a fake "Network Error" page when accessing www.efile.com. also contains two hard-coded download URLs, both served on the malicious domain infoamanewonliag[.]online. The same IP also hosts the illicit domain the payloads were downloaded from. So different browsers get different payloads," says Ullrich.

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Tax preparation and e-file service eFile.com compromised to serve malware

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APRIL 5, 2023

A user on Reddit noticed that taxpayers attempting to load the website were redirected to a fake ‘network error’ page that instructed them to download a fake browser update (called “installer.exe” or “update.exe”) to correctly access the service. The PHP script downloads and executes additional code. ” wrote Ullrich.

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Visitors of tax return e-file service may have downloaded malware

Tax preparation and e-file service eFile.com compromised to serve malware

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