Phishing with a malicious macro file
The most difficult aspect of avoiding macro malware infections is correctly detecting phishing emails.
Macros in Microsoft Office are an effective way to automate basic tasks and increase productivity. Macro malware, on the other hand, takes advantage of this feature to infect your computer.
Macro malware is distributed as email attachments or ZIP files and hides in Microsoft Office files. The names of these files are designed to entice or intimidate people into opening them. They also resemble invoices, receipts, legal records, and other documents.
Since macros run automatically whenever a document was opened, macro malware was fairly popular a few years ago. Macros are disabled by default in recent versions of Microsoft Office. Malware authors must now persuade users to allow macros in order for their malware to run. When a malicious document is opened, they attempt to intimidate users by displaying fake alerts.
In one of my articles about social engineering, I explained one of the methods of creating malicious macro files.
