VBA Stomped Office Document Delivered via HTTP

Darshan Thummar@Mighty

•updated Jun 11, 2026•0•0•3

This rule detects the delivery of a VBA stomped Office document via HTTP. It looks for specific content within the HTTP response body, indicating a Microsoft Office document that has been manipulated to hide malicious VBA macros. The rule specifically checks for the presence of "[Content_Types].xml", "vbaProject", and "PerformanceCache" within the file data, which are characteristic of Office documents containing VBA macros, with "PerformanceCache" being a potential indicator of VBA stomping.