Since 2014, Emotet has been using Man-in-the-Browsers (MITB) attacks to target companies
in the finance industry and their clients. Its key aim is to steal victims' online money-lending …

Microsoft Office may be by far the most widely used suite for processing documents,
spreadsheets, and presentations. Due to its popularity, it is continuously utilised to carry out …

Macro-based malware attacks are on the rise in recent cyber-attacks using malicious code
written in visual basic code which can be used to target computers to achieve various …

Macro malware has always been a severe threat to cyber security although the Microsoft
Office suite applies the default macro-disabling policy. Among the defense solutions at …

Despite being the most common initial attack vector, document-based malware delivery
remains understudied compared to research on malicious executables. This limits our …

Society is inextricably dependent on the Internet and other globally interconnected
infrastructures used in the provisioning of information services. The growth of information …

This paper analyzes the efficiency of various machine learning models (artificial neural
networks, random forest, decision tree, AdaBoost and XGBoost) against the evolution of VBA …

In the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the prevalence of malicious Visual Basic for
Applications (VBA) macros embedded in Office documents presents a formidable challenge …

The detection of malicious macros has been a prominent focus of research. Previous
approaches exhibit two notable shortcomings. Firstly, methods centered on document and …

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, malware attacks targeting widely used
non-executable formats, namely Microsoft Office and PDF files, have become a prevalent …