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Office as a malware delivery platform: DDE, Scriptlets, Macro obfuscation

Posted on December 19, 2017 at 15:02 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

I thought we got over the Office macro malware blues back in the 90s. Nope. All of that high-powered native document intelligence is coming back to bite us.

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Windows Patches/Security DDE, KB 4011575, KB 4011590, KB 4011608, KB 4011612, KB 4011614, Macro obfuscation, Scriptlets

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