sublimehighRule

Attachment: HTML smuggling with unescape

Recursively scans files and archives to detect HTML smuggling techniques.

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566 T1566.001 T1566.002 T1598 T1204.002 T1486 T1036 T1027 T1059

defense-evasionexecution

Detection Query

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, . == "unescape")
                or any(.scan.strings.strings,
                       regex.contains(., "document.write.{0,10}unescape")
                )
        )
)

Data Sources

Email MessagesEmail HeadersEmail Attachments

Platforms

References

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/11/11/html-smuggling-surges-highly-evasive-loader-technique-increasingly-used-in-banking-malware-targeted-attacks/

Raw Content

name: "Attachment: HTML smuggling with unescape"
description: |
  Recursively scans files and archives to detect HTML smuggling techniques.
references:
  - "https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/11/11/html-smuggling-surges-highly-evasive-loader-technique-increasingly-used-in-banking-malware-targeted-attacks/"
type: "rule"
severity: "high"
source: |
  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, . == "unescape")
                  or any(.scan.strings.strings,
                         regex.contains(., "document.write.{0,10}unescape")
                  )
          )
  )
attack_types:
  - "Credential Phishing"
  - "Malware/Ransomware"
tactics_and_techniques:
  - "Evasion"
  - "HTML smuggling"
  - "Scripting"
detection_methods:
  - "Archive analysis"
  - "File analysis"
  - "HTML analysis"
  - "Javascript analysis"
id: "0b0fed36-735a-50f1-bf10-6673237a4623"