VBA executes command text received over HTTP

OLE_VBA_HTTP_RESPONSE_COMMAND_EXEC

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critical OLE_VBA_HTTP_RESPONSE_COMMAND_EXEC

What it means

An auto-running VBA macro passes an HTTP text response directly to WScript.Shell.Run or Exec.

Why it fires

The detector correlates object and variable flow within one reachable procedure: a bound XMLHTTP/WinHttpRequest object must issue a request, its responseText/responseStream must be assigned to a variable, and that same variable must reach Run or Exec on a bound WScript.Shell object. This implements a remote-command backdoor. Unrelated HTTP and Shell helpers, binary ResponseBody downloads, and image insertion workflows do not match.

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