Key Findings MSHTA, a retired Windows tool originally built for Internet Explorer, remains enabled by default on modern Windows systems and is now actively exploited for fileless malware attacks Threat actors abuse MSHTA as a Living-off-the-Land binary to execute malicious code directly in memory while masking activity as legitimate administrative tasks Multiple malware families including CountLoader, Emmenhtal Loader, PurpleFox, and ClipBanker leverage MSHTA to deliver info-
