The Emotet Trojan is getting ready for the tax season with a fresh spam campaign pretending to be signed W-9 tax forms. The new campaign is not particularly sophisticated, but Cofense believes that these campaigns will get more sophisticated as we get further into tax season. The Japan CERT released a new tool called EmoCheck that lets you easily check if a computer is infected with the Trojan. It is important to catch it early before it can download other malware onto the computer.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/emotet-gets-ready-for-tax-season-with-malicious-w-9-forms/