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Documents with malicious macros deliver fileless malware to financial-transaction systems

Malicious Word documents with malicious macros are being used to deliver fileless malware. The documents contain macros that, if allowed to run, execute a hidden version of powershell.exe. Windows PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework that’s included in Windows by default and comes with its own scripting language. Palo Alto Networks analyzed a recent attack campaign that pushed spam emails with malicious Word documents to business email addresses from the U.S., Canada and Europe. The emails contained the recipients’ names as well as specific information about the companies they worked for.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3043571/documents-with-malicious-macros-deliver-fileless-malware-to-financial-transaction-systems.html

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