• Sublime Core Feed
Medium Severity

Attachment with encrypted zip (unsolicited)

Labels

Malware/Ransomware
Evasion
Encryption
Archive analysis
File analysis
Sender analysis

Description

Recursively scans files and archives to detect encrypted zip files.

References

Sublime Security
Created Aug 17th, 2023 • Last updated Jul 16th, 2025
Feed Source
Sublime Core Feed
Source
GitHub
type.inbound
and any(attachments,
        (.file_type == "zip" or .file_extension == "zip")
        and any(file.explode(.), any(.flavors.yara, . == 'encrypted_zip'))
)
and (
  not profile.by_sender().solicited
  or (
    profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
    and not profile.by_sender().any_messages_benign
  )
)
and not profile.by_sender().prevalence == "common"
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