According to a SANS ISC diary entry published September 24, a phishing email received by the organization included a link that, at first sight, looks like garbage. The author warns that the URL is not random: every piece of it has been carefully crafted to confuse basic security controls.
The diary's title points to three distinct tricks embedded in the same URL, though the excerpt does not detail them individually. The example highlights how attackers are moving beyond simple obfuscation and combining multiple evasion techniques in a single link.
For defenders, the message is that surface-level inspection of suspicious URLs is no longer enough. A link that appears meaningless may still be a carefully engineered attempt to bypass filters, and each component deserves closer scrutiny.