July 20, 2023, 8:45 a.m. | MalBot

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Today, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Deobfuscation of Malware Delivered Through a .bat File“:


I found a phishing email that delivered a RAR archive (password protected). Inside the archive, there was a simple .bat file (SHA256: 57ebd5a707eb69dd719d461e1fbd14f98a42c6c3dcb8505e4669c55762810e70) with the following name: “SRI DISTRITAL – DPTO DE COBRO -SRI Informa-Deuda pendiente.bat”. Its current VT score is only 1/59!


Let’s have a look at this file! After the classic “@echo off”, there is a very long line that …

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