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		danielweber on Nov 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reflected File Download: A New Web Attack Vector Send it to their Gmail account. Tell them to download the attached file, which will "come from google.com."

geofft on Nov 6, 2014 [–]

It comes from https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com, so it's not super useful for the sort of attacks that this approach would be used for.

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