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Comment by lifeisstillgood

tl;dr using an old but still valid OLE component, you can embed any exe in a word doc, convert to rich text, that then faithfully re-expands the exe onto users runtime when they open the word doc - a perfect malware delivery method that if correct has almost no defence beyond ... Plain text emails.

(The firewall would need to re-expand the rich text using this OLE, then scan the word doc, then repackage. Unsurprisingly nothing on market seems to. Jeez - stick to plain text)

One suspects that a lot of spear-phisers know about this already.

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