.LNK downloader and bitsadmin.exe in malicious Office document

We received a malicious office document (529581c1418fceda983336b002297a8e) that tricks the user into clicking on an embedded LNK file which in its turn uses the Microsoft Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to download a malicious binary from the internet. The following Word document (in Japanese) claims to be an invoice, the user must click the Word icon to generate … Continue reading .LNK downloader and bitsadmin.exe in malicious Office document

Analyzing an Office Maldoc with a VBA Emulator

Today we were informed of another maldoc sample. After a quick look, we were convinced that this sample would be a good candidate for Philippe Lagadec's VBA emulator ViperMonkey. The maldoc in a nutshell: when the spreadsheet is opened, the VBA code builds a long JScript script and then executes it. This script contains base64 code for … Continue reading Analyzing an Office Maldoc with a VBA Emulator