In September 2024, threat intelligence experts from the Positive Technologies Security Expert Center (PT ESC) discovered an email sent to a governmental organization belonging to a CIS country. Timestamps indicate that the email was sent back in June 2024. The email appeared to be a message without text, containing only an attached document.
However, the email client didn’t show the attachment. The body of the email contained distinctive tags with the statement eval(atob(…)), which decode and execute JavaScript code:
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Source: Positive Technologies
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