My Browser Cache Got Infected

John Hammond · 21 min

The video walks through a ClickFix social engineering lure that hides a staged PowerShell and batch payload inside browser cache data, showing how the attack chain fetches and executes later stages. It explains how the analyst identified the payload by file size, cache location and batch-script indicators, and how the final stages behave in a sandbox. Viewers learn practical triage steps for this style of clipboard-based infection.