Using Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper

guest · Nov 16, 2018

Using Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper
November 16, 2018
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/78111/malware/microsoft-powerpoint-malware-dropper.html

Nowadays Microsoft office documents are often used to propagate Malware acting like dynamic droppers. Microsoft Excel embedding macros or Microsoft Word with user actions (like links or external OLE objects) are the main players in this “Office Dropping Arena”.

The “attack-path” is very close to what it’s observable on modern threats since years: eMail campaign with an attached document and actionable text on it.
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Microsoft should probably take care of this and try to filter or to ask permissions before include external contents, but still, this will not be a complete solution (on my personal point of view). A more deep and invasive action would be needed to check the remote content
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