Whenever we refer to macro threats, we are reminded of those malicious macros in the old days which infect Microsoft Office documents. Contrary to popular belief, macro threats haven’t completely disappeared. Even with many new security features added to Microsoft Office and even with the improvement of people’s security consciousness, macro threats still continue to persist.
These new macro threats, however, have changed their role from being infectors into droppers that could decrypt/decode/drop/execute the payload. In this way, the payload can avoid being detected.
In this blog post, we will show some examples.
more here........http://blog.fortinet.com/Long-Live-Macro-Threats-/
These new macro threats, however, have changed their role from being infectors into droppers that could decrypt/decode/drop/execute the payload. In this way, the payload can avoid being detected.
In this blog post, we will show some examples.
more here........http://blog.fortinet.com/Long-Live-Macro-Threats-/