DLL Loaded from a Macro Enabled Document
Description
Identifies when a Microsoft Office process loads a DLL and from a call stack pointing to Microsoft Office Visual Basic for Applications modules. This may indicate an attempt to get initial access using malicious macro enabled documents.
Query · eql
library where
process.name : ("WINWORD.EXE", "EXCEL.EXE", "POWERPNT.EXE", "mspub.exe", "fltldr.exe", "visio.exe") and
(
/* VBA */
process.thread.Ext.call_stack_summary : "*|vbe?.dll*" or
/* Shellcode RWX */
(_arraysearch(process.thread.Ext.call_stack, $entry, $entry.symbol_info : "Unbacked*" and $entry.protection : "RWX") and
not process.thread.Ext.call_stack_summary : ("*|clr.dll|*", "*mscorwks.dll*", "*mscoreei.dll|mscoree.dll*", "*system.management.ni.dll*"))
) and
/* Suspicious DLLs */
(
dll.name : "taskschd.dll" or
dll.Ext.relative_file_creation_time <= 300 or
((dll.code_signature.trusted == false or dll.code_signature.exists == false) and not dll.path : ("?:\\Windows\\System32\\*", "?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\*"))
) and
not dll.path :
("?:\\Windows\\assembly\\NativeImages_*.dll",
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\spool\\drivers\\x64\\3\\*",
"?:\\Program Files\\*",
"?:\\Program Files (x86)\\*",
"?:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework*",
"?:\\Windows\\system32\\scrrun.dll",
"?:\\Windows\\syswow64\\scrrun.dll",
"?:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\THREED32.OCX",
"C:\\blp\\*",
"?:\\Windows\\System32\\DriverStore\\FileRepository\\*") and
not dll.hash.sha256 :
("a33c6d203ffa6941b1e498f52f6ef565c5d731c2deecbae067c0039208a8db25",
"4579447a18f557ef95cad8df77634370dbe7ddeaed8d319ea6e7a26ac1e79db6",
"f1c4e834f96abc5d787bd3d4efea008537eb44fd3e3b6560f8cef4eace525a62",
"902553c9ffdc9e9751c6045b50590613183d4a7cc730365f7d629729a43fedcd",
"b80eca5b58d276be4d66bda65599e609efde2811de252172eeccea803826d41f",
"a33c6d203ffa6941b1e498f52f6ef565c5d731c2deecbae067c0039208a8db25",
"f110d49ca78d0fe8ee0fa1824f7bb714359159e824a65a13f2fd5bb7d91b692a",
"90b3278ba2df87e4d61817adacf60f467359e0ff54dc793c0d5fdbc5fb087e59",
"2e531fdebdc3468c03922545ce169804400e3ebb577e08ec88a6561901d2c595",
"97c8afd6038b37729933ea0895760abe0a15b48258c46a04a0d010ed1ffa4e07",
"81fc25734e3876b34e287a1df17cb94483029534392fed50f0c629e40485660c",
"bd92610dd9504c6eef269b4c7b1bcaf9ebf28081bb81a82fc053035701182383",
"1e38e061ee5fcd4a76c591c24a39da005dc5fd58062ef8fadfe1ade95bfdbd4c",
"96c0caf8a7e7c087028c0793eb9a0ab21f7a4a7a5ca5c85a95ad1f4419a8186c",
"079cff190d73f4d1074844bf188588542cf3b52c22f775019fad113e0b63b14d",
"d661f1a025d99a98ebc6e42b3e69ae89379773821b2471ae138c4e55a5b63aa7",
"75e06078dd24506ffea81cf1615f5f9d9057abe2caf0067c396f20f3bea8b817",
"44185134b1f8c503c78e9dbc36891ba3fa109237c3dc79399955bf29e75921d4",
"9c2f359207114f5de82f080b08cbcfe723153b3f9c002c3f672a60e88c0d71b6")