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## AgentTesla Dropped Through Automatic Click in Microsoft Help File
### Published: 2021-02-12
Last Updated: 2021-02-12 08:01:37 UTC
by Xavier Mertens (Version: 1)
1 comment(s) Attackers have plenty of resources to infect our systems. If some files may look suspicious because the extension is less common (like .xsl files[1]), others look really safe and make the victim confident to open it. I spotted a phishing campaign that delivers a fake invoice. The attached file is a classic ZIP archive but it contains a .chm file: a Microsoft compiled HTML Help file[2]. The file is named "INV00620224400.chm" (sha256:af9fe480abc56cf1e1354eb243ec9f5bee9cac0d75df38249d1c64236132ceab) and has a current VT score of 27/59[3].If you open this file, you will get a normal help file (.chm extension is handled by the c:\windows\hh.exe tool).
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### But you will see that a Powershell window is popping up for a few seconds and disappears. Let's have a look at the file. You can handle .chm files with 7Zip and browse their content:
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### The sub-directories starting with "$" and the files starting with "#" are standard files in such files but let's have a look at the file called "sdf48df.htm". As usual, Microsoft provides tools and file formats that are able to work with dynamic content. This is true for help files that can embed Javascript code. Here is the content of the .htm file:
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The variable kldfdf is easy to decode (it's just a hex-encoded chunk of data):
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html
Customer service
Customer service
Please Wait...