Attachment: Emotet heavily padded doc in zip file
Detects a potential Emotet delivery method using padded .doc files that compress into small zip files. Contents may include Red Dawn templates exceeding 500MB.
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1name: "Attachment: Emotet heavily padded doc in zip file"
2description: |
3 Detects a potential Emotet delivery method using padded .doc files that compress into small zip files.
4 Contents may include Red Dawn templates exceeding 500MB.
5references:
6 - "https://twitter.com/Cryptolaemus1/status/1633099154623803394"
7type: "rule"
8severity: "high"
9source: |
10 type.inbound
11 and any(attachments,
12 .file_extension == "zip"
13 and any(file.explode(.),
14 .depth == 0
15 and .size < 1000000
16 and not .depth > 0
17 and strings.ends_with(.scan.exiftool.zip_file_name, ".doc")
18 and .scan.exiftool.zip_uncompressed_size > 500000000
19 )
20 )
21 and (
22 profile.by_sender().prevalence in ("new", "outlier")
23 or (
24 profile.by_sender().any_messages_malicious_or_spam
25 and not profile.by_sender().any_false_positives
26 )
27 )
28tags:
29 - "Malfam: Emotet"
30attack_types:
31 - "Malware/Ransomware"
32tactics_and_techniques:
33 - "Evasion"
34detection_methods:
35 - "Archive analysis"
36 - "Content analysis"
37 - "Exif analysis"
38 - "File analysis"
39 - "Sender analysis"
40id: "9a5332ed-0023-5d6e-89d3-bd789c3bde6f"