Hunting for evil: detect macros being executed
In many of our red teaming and incident response engagements, we encounter the abuse of MS Office macros as a vector to drop a remote access trojan and thereby gain initial foothold. From many discussions with our clients we have learned that macros are hard to secure and often a necessity for business operations. In this blog I’ll share a rough approach for detection of evil macros. In parallel, we are working on a more robust solution that can fully manage the macro problem (we hope to share some news on this later).
