WEB-THREAT_MAL-OBFUSCATED

August 04, 2015
 PLATFORM:

Windows

 OVERALL RISK RATING:
 DAMAGE POTENTIAL:
 REPORTED INFECTION:

  • Threat Type: Web Threat

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

This detection is for web threats related to malicious URLs that contain obfuscated or non-readable strings from webpage content. It is a common attack technique used to hide codes. Example of obfuscated codes is using base64 to encrypt scripts such as Javascript and Visual Basic script. It can also be used in exploit attacks.