Recently, we have seen a resurgence of Excel-based malicous office documents. Howerver, instead of using VBA-style macros, they are using older style Excel 4 macros. This changes our approach to analyzing these documents, requiring a slightly different set of tools. In this challenge, you’ll get hands-on with two documents that use Excel 4.0 macros to perform anti-analysis and download the next stage of the attack.
Samples:
- Sample1: MD5: fb5ed444ddc37d748639f624397cff2a
- Sample2: MD5: b5d469a07709b5ca6fee934b1e5e8e38
Helpful Tools:
- REMnux VM
- XLMDeobfuscator
- OLEDUMP with PLUGIN_BIFF
- Office IDE