High Severity
Attachment: Archive with embedded EXE file
Description
Recursively scans files and archives to detect embedded EXE files (with an MZ header).
According to The Record, on June 7, 2021, the Ukrainian Secret Service attributed an attack that used this technique to the "special services of the Russian Federation".
The spear-phishing operation urged recipients to download a RAR archive included in the email, which, when decompressed, would drop an EXE file with a double extension (filename.pdf.exe) that tried to pass as a PDF file.
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Created Aug 17th, 2023 • Last updated Feb 27th, 2024
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type.inbound
and any(attachments,
(
.file_extension in~ $file_extensions_common_archives
or .file_type == "rar"
)
and any(file.explode(.),
// the YARA scanner alone can be a bit unreliable,
// it's matched on MZ strings in a text file before
any(.flavors.yara, . == "mz_file")
and strings.starts_with(.flavors.mime, "application")
)
)
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