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Medium Severity

Attachment: File execution via Javascript

Labels

Malware/Ransomware
Evasion
Scripting
Archive analysis
File analysis
Javascript analysis
Sender analysis

Description

Javascript contains identifiers or strings that may attempt to execute files.

References

No references.

Sublime Security
Created Aug 17th, 2023 • Last updated Dec 19th, 2023
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Sublime Core Feed
Source
GitHub
type.inbound
and any(attachments,
        .file_type in $file_extensions_common_archives
        and any(file.explode(.),
                any(.scan.javascript.identifiers, strings.ilike(., 'ActiveXObject', 'ShellExecute'))
                or (
                  length(.scan.javascript.strings) > 0
                  and all(.scan.javascript.strings, strings.ilike(., 'Shell.Application', '*.exe'))
                )
        )
)
and (
  profile.by_sender().prevalence in ("new", "outlier")
  or profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
)
and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
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