Office_as_MHTML


Description

Detects an Microsoft Office saved as a MHTML file (false positives are possible but rare; many matches on CVE-2012-0158)

Query · yara

strings:
		$s1 = "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" ascii fullword
		$s2 = "Content-Type: application/x-mso" ascii fullword

		$x1 = "QWN0aXZlTWltZQA" ascii 	// Base64 encoded 'ActiveMime'
		$x2 = "0M8R4KGxGuE" ascii 		// Base64 encoded office header D0CF11E0A1B11AE1..
	condition:
		uint32be(0) == 0x4d494d45 // "MIME" header
		and all of ($s*) and 1 of ($x*)
Raw source Office_as_MHTML · YARA
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Published by Neo23x0/signature-base ↗, licensed under Detection Rule License 1.1 ↗. Reproduced here unmodified.
rule Office_as_MHTML {
	meta:
		description = "Detects an Microsoft Office saved as a MHTML file (false positives are possible but rare; many matches on CVE-2012-0158)"
		license = "Detection Rule License 1.1 https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base/blob/master/LICENSE"
		author = "Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)"
		date = "2015-05-28"
		score = 40
		reference = "https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Malicious-Macros-Evades-Detection-by-Using-Unusual-File-Format/"
		hash1 = "8391d6992bc037a891d2e91fd474b91bd821fe6cb9cfc62d1ee9a013b18eca80"
		hash2 = "1ff3573fe995f35e70597c75d163bdd9bed86e2238867b328ccca2a5906c4eef"
		hash3 = "d44a76120a505a9655f0224c6660932120ef2b72fee4642bab62ede136499590"
		hash4 = "5b8019d339907ab948a413d2be4bdb3e5fdabb320f5edc726dc60b4c70e74c84"
		id = "21c0c3da-7295-54ad-9947-557a3180af3a"
	strings:
		$s1 = "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" ascii fullword
		$s2 = "Content-Type: application/x-mso" ascii fullword

		$x1 = "QWN0aXZlTWltZQA" ascii 	// Base64 encoded 'ActiveMime'
		$x2 = "0M8R4KGxGuE" ascii 		// Base64 encoded office header D0CF11E0A1B11AE1..
	condition:
		uint32be(0) == 0x4d494d45 // "MIME" header
		and all of ($s*) and 1 of ($x*)
}

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