[NEWS] Malware authors are now using OLE embedding to deliver malicious files

[Unax]

Recently, we’ve seen reports of malicious files that misuse the legitimate Office object linking and embedding (OLE) capability to trick users into enabling and downloading malicious content. Previously, we’ve seen macros used in a similar matter, and this use of OLE might indicate a shift in behavior as administrators and enterprises are mitigating against this infection vector with better security and new options in Office.

In these new cases, we’re seeing OLE-embedded objects and content surrounded by well-formatted text and images to encourage users to enable the object or content, and thus run the malicious code. So far, we’ve seen these files use malicious Visual Basic (VB) and JavaScript (JS) scripts embedded in a document.

The script or object is surrounded by text that encourages the user to click or interact with the script (which is usually represented with a script-like icon). When the user interacts with the object, a warning prompts the user whether to proceed or not. If the user chooses to proceed (by clicking Open), the malicious script runs and any form of infection can occur.

Fonte: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2016/06/14/wheres-the-macro-malware-author-are-now-using-ole-embedding-to-deliver-malicious-files/