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Microsoft Office Word Malicious Macro Execution

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Disclosed
Jan 10, 2012
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module injects a malicious macro into a Microsoft Office Word document (docx). The
comments field in the metadata is injected with a Base64 encoded payload, which will be
decoded by the macro and execute as a Windows executable.

For a successful attack, the victim is required to manually enable macro execution.

Author

sinn3r [email protected]

Platform

Python,Windows

Architectures

python

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/multi/fileformat/office_word_macro
    msf exploit(office_word_macro) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(office_word_macro) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(office_word_macro) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(office_word_macro) > exploit
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