A “??????t??????a????????????e ??????o????????????” Smishing Campaign that changes behaviour based on User-Agent, and abuses…

A “𝙨t𝙧a𝗇𝗀e 𝙛o𝙣𝗍” Smishing Campaign that changes behaviour based on User-Agent, and abuses…

By Lena

8 min read

Jan 23, 2023

Recently in Japan, there has been an increase in Smishing attacks that uses a strange font. This got me wondering what was behind the strange font link, and lead me to write this post. I named this the “StrangeFont” campaign.

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I came across a Smishing message,

お客様が不在の為お荷物を持ち帰りました。こちらにてご確認ください 8t9z[.]𝙪y𝙝𝗂𝖼[.]com?xx

Which translates to,

As the customer was absent, the package was brought back. Please confirm here 8t9z[.]𝙪y𝙝𝗂𝖼[.]com?xx Press enter or click to view image in full size…