Attachment: HTML smuggling with excessive line break obfuscation

Credential Phishing attacks have been observed using excessive line breaks to obfuscate javascript functions within html files.

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 1name: "Attachment: HTML smuggling with excessive line break obfuscation"
 2description: |
 3    Credential Phishing attacks have been observed using excessive line breaks to obfuscate javascript functions within html files.
 4type: "rule"
 5severity: "high"
 6source: |
 7  type.inbound
 8  and any(attachments,
 9          (
10            .file_extension in~ ("html", "htm", "shtml", "dhtml")
11            or .file_extension in~ $file_extensions_common_archives
12            or .file_type == "html"
13          )
14          and any(file.explode(.),
15                  any(.scan.strings.strings,
16                  // return new line padded obfuscation 
17                      regex.contains(., '(\\r\\n\S{2}){50,}')
18                      and strings.contains(., 'decodeURIComponent')
19                  )
20          )
21  )  
22attack_types:
23  - "Credential Phishing"
24  - "Malware/Ransomware"
25tactics_and_techniques:
26  - "Encryption"
27  - "Evasion"
28  - "HTML smuggling"
29  - "Scripting"
30detection_methods:
31  - "Archive analysis"
32  - "Content analysis"
33  - "File analysis"
34  - "HTML analysis"
35  - "Javascript analysis"
36id: "7e901440-5751-5d94-8b2d-47eb3c0e2b9d"
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