JavaScript Obfuscation: From Party Trick to Phishing Kit

Cisco Talos published research tracing how JavaScript obfuscation techniques have evolved from novelty tricks into a core component of modern phishing kits. The research covers what obfuscation is, why a researcher would try to reverse it, and several approaches to deobfuscation.

Aimed at practitioners analyzing phishing infrastructure and building detections for obfuscated kit code.