---
id: 8149
title: "Microsoft Word – UNC Path Injection with Image Linking"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/microsoft-word-unc-path-injection-image-linking/"
published_at: "2018-01-02T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["phishing", "social-engineering", "unc-injection", "netntlm", "responder", "microsoft-word"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8149"
lang: en
---

# Microsoft Word – UNC Path Injection with Image Linking

## Summary

Word documents with linked images or UNC paths can silently resolve attacker hosts on open, capturing NetNTLM hashes with Responder or Inveigh and probing egress filtering without user warnings.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/network-pentesting/microsoft-word-unc-path-injection-image-linking/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8149