Talos has identified a targeted attacks affecting the Middle East. This campaign contains the following elements, which are described in detail in this article. The use of allegedly confidential decoy documents purported to be written by the Jordanian publishing and research house, Dar El-Jaleel. This institute is well-known for their research concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Sunni-Shia conflict in Iran. The attacker was particularly careful to camouflage their infrastructure. The attacker extensively used scripting languages (VBScript, VBA) as part of their attack. These scripts are used to dynamically load and execute VBScript functions retrieved from a Command & Control server.”]
Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/02/targeted-attacks-in-middle-east.html