An interpreter for Microsoft Office VBA Macros written in Java. The purpose of this interpreter is to detect malware in macros.

The project is currently in alpha stage, there is a lot of functionality not yet implemented and plenty of bugs. Nevertheless, we welcome if you fork this project, report issues on Github, and send us pull requests for code improvements.

Compiling

This project uses a maven build system. Install Maven 2 on your distribution to compile. To create the binary jar file, run:

mvn package

Running

Run with:

java -jar target/vbainterpreter-*-with-dependencies.jar <document>

There is also a way to dump the VBA code seen by the interpreter:

java -classpath vbainterpreter-*-with-dependencies.jar thirdparty.org.apache.poi.poifs.macros.VBAMacroExtractor <document>

License

This code is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for the license's text. This project is based on vba-interpreter by Ishua.