A97M

Classification

Category:

Malware

Platform:

A97M

Type:

Virus, trojan

Aliases:

A97M

Summary

A97M is F-Secure's platform designation for malware spread in specially crafted Microsoft Office Access documents (version Word 97 and onwards).

Removal

Technical Details

Due to the almost ubiquitous nature of the Microsoft Office business suite, specially crafted document files are often used as a vector for delivering malware. Such documents typically exploit a vulnerability in the document management program itself in order to plant the malware on targeted systems.

Specially crafted Access documents typically contain malicious code that silently executes when the document is opened. The malicious code is usually inserted as macro code. A representative example of A97M malware is: