macro virus
nounid
3189·updated May 9, 2026candidate
A virus that attaches itself to documents and uses the macro programming capabilities of the document’s application to execute and propagate.
MWE
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat90%rule-basedr:entity.threat.attack.v1
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- macro viruses
- possessive
- macro virus's
- pluralpossessive
- macro viruses'
Framework definitions
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1
- A type of malicious code that attaches itself to documents and uses the macro programming capabilities of the document’s application to execute, replicate, and spread or propagate itself.
- §1
- A virus that attaches itself to documents and uses the macro programming capabilities of the document’s application to execute and propagate.
- §1
- A virus that attaches itself to documents and uses the macro programming capabilities of the document’s application to execute and propagate.
Outgoing relationships
- related
- →Virusnoun
Incoming relationships
- related
- ←Virusnoun