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Want to make those #xlm macros particularly resistant to AV? Get yourself a copy of Office 2003 and use the XOR Obfuscation method of encryption to protect your document with default password (VelvetSweatshop). Suddenly your #maldoc is invisible. Example: virustotal.com/gui/file/c3466… Image
The example I posted is otherwise identical to this document I generated with #macrome - virustotal.com/gui/file/e23f9…. Goes from 11 detections to 0.

AV knows about the VelvetSweatshop trick, but they don't know how to decrypt the XOR Obfuscation method.
The MS-OFFCRYPTO specification is actually full of goodies if you give it a read. XOR Obfuscation is described at docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspec…. It's a legacy format stemming from the crypto-is-a-munition days. It's trivial to bypass, but unsupported by most document forensic tools.
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