  We search for extragalactic sources in the VISTA Variables in the V\'ia
L\'actea survey that are hidden by the Galaxy. Herein, we describe our
photometric procedure to find and characterize extragalactic objects using a
combination of SExtractor and PSFEx. It was applied in two tiles of the survey:
d010 and d115, without previous extragalactic IR detections, in order to obtain
photometric parameters of the detected sources. The adopted criteria to define
extragalactic candidates include CLASS_STAR < 0.3; 1.0 < R1/2 < 5.0 arcsec; 2.1
< C < 5; and Phi > 0.002 and the colors: 0.5 < (J - K_s) < 2.0 mag; 0.0 < (J -
H) < 1.0 mag; 0.0 < (H - K_s) < 2.0 mag and (J - H) + 0.9 (H - K_s) > 0.44 mag.
We detected 345 and 185 extragalactic candidates in the d010 and d115 tiles,
respectively. All of them were visually inspected and confirmed to be galaxies.
In general, they are small and more circular objects, due to the near-IR
sensitivity to select more compact objects with higher surface brightness. The
procedure will be used to identify extragalactic objects in other tiles of the
VVV disk, which will allow us to study the distribution of galaxies and
filaments hidden by the Milky Way.
