BACKGROUND:
A new malspam variant that bypasses Office macro security to download Zloader was disclosed by McAfee on their blog Thursday. The variant disables Office defenses and delivers the Zloader banking trojan using a Word doc that downloads an XLS file. This downloads and executes malicious DLLs (Zloader) without any malicious code present in the initial spammed attachment macro. An expert with Gurucul offers perspective.
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