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Device-code phishing disguised as a Microsoft Teams meeting booking: Huntress traces an October intrusion from a spear-phish through a Microsoft Safe Links-wrapped Google share link to a scheduler page whose 'Booking Reference' is the device code, an in-browser decrypted kit that restarts the flow when MFA is required, and a token replayed through a residential proxy

Huntress: device-code phishing posing as a Teams booking skips URL reputation checks; hunt Cmsi:Cmsi sign-ins

Analysis

In mid-October a Huntress SOC saw an employee of a construction company receive a spear-phishing email from a typosquatted domain impersonating another company's senior vice president; the link in the mail was wrapped by Microsoft Safe Links and pointed to a Google share link that redirected server-side to the lure page, so the mail body held the Google link and not the lure domain, which Huntress says sidestepped URL reputation checks for email security (Huntress, 2026-11-12). The page posed as a Microsoft Teams meeting scheduler, and behind it the backend started a Microsoft device-code sign-in; the "Booking Reference" shown to the victim is the device code, which the victim enters in a genuine Microsoft sign-in window (Huntress, 2026-11-12).

The kit is shipped as AES-256-GCM ciphertext that the browser decrypts, so that to an email scanner or crawler that does not run JavaScript the page is an encrypted blob; if Microsoft answers AADSTS50076 or interaction_required because MFA is required, the kit starts a new device-code session and restarts the flow (Huntress, 2026-11-12). After the victim finished, the attacker held a session token and the device-code login (Cmsi:Cmsi) was routed through a residential proxy; the compromised account had no MFA enrolled and was used from an unmanaged device, and Huntress contained the incident before it escalated (Huntress, 2026-11-12).

Triage: Huntress treats a device-code prompt that follows a link, a booking request or another unexpected interaction as suspicious, and the captured session shows up as a replay from another ASN and region within one session (Huntress, 2026-11-12).

Cited evidence

This booking reference is the device code.

To an email scanner or crawler that doesn't run JavaScript, the lure page is just an encrypted blob.

The captured session was replayed from attacker infrastructure; the ASN and region changed inside the same session ID.

Huntress 2026-11-12

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