FortiGuard Labs recently observed a phishing campaign designed to impersonate Ukrainian government agencies and deliver additional malware to targeted systems.
The phishing emails contain malicious Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files designed to trick recipients into opening harmful attachments. When opened, the SVG initiates the download of a password-protected archive that contains a Compiled HTML Help (CHM) file. This CHM file triggers a chain of malicious actions through an HTML Application (HTA) CountLoader, ultimately installing multiple types of malware on the victim’s machine.
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Source: Fortinet
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