Month: April 2020

  • Excel 4 Macros – Get.Workspace Reference

    With the recent resurgence of the use of Excel 4 macros in malicious excel documents, I’ve found myself scouring the internet looking for language references. One such function that was particularly difficult to find documentation for was Get.Workspace, which takes a integer value as an argument and returns information about the environment. Since it appears […]

  • Removing Passwords from VBA Projects

    Occasionally I’ll encounter a maldoc that has a password-protected VBA project. While tools such as oledump may still extract the macros, the password protection is typically encountered when accessing the project through the Office/VBA IDE (which I typically use for dynamic analysis). This happens rare enough that I often forget the steps of removing the […]