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Attachment: HTML smuggling with ROT13

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Credential Phishing
Malware/Ransomware
Encryption
Evasion
HTML smuggling
Scripting
Archive analysis
Content analysis
File analysis
Javascript analysis
HTML analysis

Description

Potential HTML obfuscation attack based on suspicious JavaScript identifiers. Some attackers may use obfuscation techniques such as ROT13 to bypass email security filters. This rule may be expanded to inspect HTML attachments for other suspicious identifiers.

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@Kyle_Parrish_
Created Aug 17th, 2023 • Last updated Aug 21st, 2023
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type.inbound
and any(attachments,
        (
          .file_extension in~ ("html", "htm", "shtml", "dhtml")
          or .file_extension in~ $file_extensions_common_archives
          or .file_type == "html"
        )
        and any(file.explode(.),
                any(.scan.javascript.identifiers, . in~ ("rot13"))
                and length(.scan.javascript.identifiers) < 100
        )
)
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