The Mimic Octopus: Weaponizing File Corruption and Recoverability to Bypass Antivirus and Email Filtering
This paper investigates a novel tactic in phishing operations where threat actors intentionally corrupt document and archive files, such as DOCX, DOCM, PDF, and ZIP , to evade antivirus (AV) and email filtering systems. These files, though malformed, are recoverable by native tools like Microsoft...
