With each passing year, phishing attacks feature more and more elaborate techniques designed to trick users and evade security measures. Attackers employ deceptive URL redirection tactics, such as appending malicious website addresses to seemingly safe links, embed links in PDFs, and send HTML attachments that either host the entire phishing site or use JavaScript to launch it.
Lately, Kaspersky researchers have noticed a new trend where attackers are distributing attachments in SVG format, the kind normally used for storing images. SVG format SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics using XML. Since SVG is based on XML, it supports JavaScript and HTML, unlike JPEG or PNG. This makes it easier for designers to work with non-graphical content like text, formulas, and interactive elements. However, attackers are exploiting this by embedding scripts with links to phishing pages within the image file.
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Source: Kaspersky
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