2020-07-17 ZLoader Malspam (Excel 4 Macros)

Summary ======== This is a late posting since I was originally playing with the malspam back on the 17th. In this case I was looking at some emails that were caught by the mail filters. Looking at the attachment in the email a little closer I noticed that this was one that I had not seen before but had read about on several different occasions – an Excel 4 macro. The interesting thing about this attack vector is the fact that it doesn’t rely on an embedded VB macro in the Excel spreadsheet per se, but uses the native built-in…

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