RedTeam With Publisher

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1. Foreword

Microsoft Publisher is another tool of the Office suite which is often ignored when RedTeaming.
However, it has been successfully used in several malware campaigns (examples here). Indeed,
Publisher does have an important offensive potential as it can both:

• Execute VBA code; and
• Embed files

Let’s review how those work as well as the pros and cons of using a Publisher document as an initial RedTeam payload.

Contact information:

• emeric.nasi[at]sevagas.com
• https://twitter.com/EmericNasi
• https://blog.sevagas.com/ - https://github.com/sevagas

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