Attachment with high risk VBA macro (unsolicited)
Potentially malicious attachment containing a VBA macro. Oletools categorizes the macro risk as 'high'.
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1name: "Attachment with high risk VBA macro (unsolicited)"
2description: |
3 Potentially malicious attachment containing a VBA macro. Oletools categorizes the macro risk as 'high'.
4references:
5 - "https://threatpost.com/microsoft-outlook-users-targeted-by-gamaredons-new-vba-macro/156484/"
6type: "rule"
7severity: "high"
8source: |
9 type.inbound
10 and any(attachments,
11 .file_extension in~ $file_extensions_macros
12 and file.oletools(.).indicators.vba_macros.risk == "high"
13 )
14 and (
15 (
16 sender.email.domain.root_domain in $free_email_providers
17 and sender.email.email not in $recipient_emails
18 )
19 or (
20 sender.email.domain.root_domain not in $free_email_providers
21 and sender.email.domain.domain not in $recipient_domains
22 )
23 )
24attack_types:
25 - "Malware/Ransomware"
26tactics_and_techniques:
27 - "Macros"
28detection_methods:
29 - "File analysis"
30 - "Macro analysis"
31 - "OLE analysis"
32 - "Sender analysis"
33id: "a2b20e16-b363-50f1-92a5-ee6c41012118"