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Attachment: Potential Sandbox Evasion in Office File

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Malware/Ransomware
Evasion
Macros
File analysis
Macro analysis

Description

Scans attached files with known Office file extension, and alerts on the presence of strings indicative of sandbox evasion checks.

Malicious code may carry out checks against the local host (e.g. running processes, disk size, domain-joined status) before running its final payload.

References

@ajpc500
Created Aug 17th, 2023 • Last updated Dec 19th, 2023
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type.inbound
and any(attachments,
        (
          .file_extension in~ $file_extensions_macros
          or (
              .file_extension is null
              and .file_type == "unknown"
              and .content_type == "application/octet-stream"
              and .size < 100000000
          )
        )
        and any(file.explode(.),
                1 of (
                  any(.scan.strings.strings, strings.ilike(., "*Win32_Processor*")),
                  any(.scan.strings.strings, strings.ilike(., "*Win32_LogicalDisk*")),
                  any(.scan.strings.strings, strings.ilike(., "*Win32_ComputerSystem*")),
                  any(.scan.strings.strings, strings.ilike(., "*Win32_Process*")),
                  any(.scan.strings.strings, strings.ilike(., "*LDAP://RootDSE*"))
                )
        )
)
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