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# ha.ckers.org web application security lab

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## [CSRF with Word Part II](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20061215/csrf-with-word-part-ii/)

Okay, I didn’t write part I, and really didn’t even know about it until today. Although I invented something like it months and months ago. But the first person to talk about [CSRF within Word was Michael Daw](http://michaeldaw.org/md-hacks/csrf-with-msword/). Very interesting concept. In the context that I was using a similar technique I was using it primarily as a web-bug. Michael Daw’s technique is good, but I like mine better, because it’s probably as noisy, however, it leaves no visible queues to the victim.

Michael includes a remote image (I’ve had mixed luck trying this myself). My failures in trying nearly the exact same thing were fixed when I came up with another way to inject embedded files into word. Those files were actually CSS elements that Word will happily go and fetch for you. [Click here to get the scoop on how to inject CSS files into Word](http://ha.ckers.org/webbug.html). Using this same technique you can easily turn this into a complex platform for doing many CSRFs through a single Word file. See what happens when no one tells me about these things? Sheesh! Nice work Michael, I just wish I had seen it when it came out!

  This entry was posted on Friday, December 15th, 2006 at 12:40 pm and is filed under [Webappsec](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/category/webappsec/), [Random Security](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/category/random-security/). You can follow any responses to this entry through the [RSS 2.0](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20061215/csrf-with-word-part-ii/feed/) feed. You can leave a response, or [trackback](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20061215/csrf-with-word-part-ii/trackback/) from your own site.

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