Static code analysis of CobaltStrike HTA malware sample

Adetomiwa
2 min readFeb 18, 2022

Cobalt Strike is a commercial, full-featured, remote access tool that bills itself as “adversary simulation software designed to execute targeted attacks and emulate the post-exploitation actions of advanced threat actors”.

Today, I analyse a HTA malware sample from vx-underground.

The demo for this analysis can be found on my YouTube.

File Identification and Identification of malicious indicators

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