SANNY Malware Delivery Method Updated in Recently Observed Attacks

Introduction In the third week of March 2018, through FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence, FireEye discovered malicious macro-based Microsoft Word documents distributing SANNY malware to multiple governments worldwide. Each malicious document lure was crafted in regard to relevant regional...

Microsoft Office Security Bypass Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-05883)

Microsoft Office is the United States Microsoft Microsoft company developed a suite of office software products. Excel is one of the spreadsheet processing software. A security bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office, which arises from the program's failure to enforce macro settings. An...

Threat Analysis: Recent Attack Technique Attempts to Bypass Whitelisting by Leveraging MS Office Document Macros, MSBuild, Certutil

Carbon Black continues to monitor and track evolving techniques that attackers leverage. Over the last several years, there has been an increase in attackers leveraging open source frameworks and proof of concept POC techniques that are released publically by researchers. A document was recently...

Iran-Linked Group ‘TEMP.Zagros’ Updates Tactics, Techniques In Latest Campaign

Researchers say a massive phishing campaign targeting Asia and Middle East regions is linked to an Iranian-based threat actor TEMP.Zagros, also known as MuddyWater. This latest attack illustrates an evolution by the threat actor, which has now adopted new tactics, techniques and procedures. “We...

CVE-2018-0907

Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Microsoft Excel 2010 SP2, Microsoft Excel 2013 SP1, Microsoft Excel 2016, Microsoft Office 2016 Click-to-Run and Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac allow a security feature bypass vulnerability due to how macro settings are enforced, aka "Microsoft Office Excel Security Featu...

Security feature bypass

Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Microsoft Excel 2010 SP2, Microsoft Excel 2013 SP1, Microsoft Excel 2016, Microsoft Office 2016 Click-to-Run and Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac allow a security feature bypass vulnerability due to how macro settings are enforced, aka "Microsoft Office Excel Security Featu...

EUVD-2018-1698

Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Microsoft Excel 2010 SP2, Microsoft Excel 2013 SP1, Microsoft Excel 2016, Microsoft Office 2016 Click-to-Run and Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac allow a security feature bypass vulnerability due to how macro settings are enforced, aka "Microsoft Office Excel Security Featu...

CVE-2018-0907

CVE-2018-0907 is a security feature bypass in Microsoft Excel/Office products caused by how macro settings are enforced. Affected: Excel 2007 SP3, 2010 SP2, 2013 SP1, 2016, and Office 2016 for Mac, including Office 2016 Click-to-Run. Core issue: bypasses to macro security controls (security featu...

CVE-2018-0907

Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Microsoft Excel 2010 SP2, Microsoft Excel 2013 SP1, Microsoft Excel 2016, Microsoft Office 2016 Click-to-Run and Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac allow a security feature bypass vulnerability due to how macro settings are enforced, aka "Microsoft Office Excel Security Featu...

Microsoft Excel 2016 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability (KB4011727)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft KB4011727 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescriptio...

Microsoft Excel 2013 Service Pack 1 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability (KB4018291)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft KB4018291 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescriptio...

Hancitor: fileless attack with a DLL copy trick

This article was authored by David Sánchez, Mickaël Roger, and Jérôme Segura During the past few years, malicious spam campaigns have proven to be one of the most efficient infection vectors, in part due to a combination of social engineering and a regular number of Office vulnerabilities. The...

Iranian Threat Group Updates Tactics, Techniques and Procedures in Spear Phishing Campaign

Introduction From January 2018 to March 2018, through FireEye’s Dynamic Threat Intelligence, we observed attackers leveraging the latest code execution and persistence techniques to distribute malicious macro-based documents to individuals in Asia and the Middle East. We attribute this activity t...

Description of the security update for Excel 2007: March 13, 2018

Description of the security update for Excel 2007: March 13, 2018 Summary This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Common...

Microsoft Office Excel Security Feature Bypass

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office software by not enforcing macro settings on an Excel document. The security feature bypass by itself does not allow arbitrary code execution. To successfully exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to embed a control in ...

Security Update for Microsoft Office (March 2018) (macOS)

The Microsoft Office 2016 application installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities: - A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office software by not enforcing macro settings on an Excel...

Security Updates for Microsoft Excel Products (March 2018)

The Microsoft Excel Products are missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability : - A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office software by not enforcing macro settings on an Excel document. The security feature bypass by itself does no...

CVE-2017-9274

A shell command injection in the obs-service-sourcevalidator before 0.7 could be used to execute code as the packager when checking RPM SPEC files with specific macro constructs...

Command injection

A shell command injection in the obs-service-sourcevalidator before 0.7 could be used to execute code as the packager when checking RPM SPEC files with specific macro constructs...

CVE-2017-9274

A shell command injection in the obs-service-sourcevalidator before 0.7 could be used to execute code as the packager when checking RPM SPEC files with specific macro constructs...