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Attachment: CVE-2021-40444 - MSHTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Attachment contains an external relationship that attempts to load a remote OLE object, consistent with use in CVE-2021-40444. On September 7, 2021, Microsoft released details about a zero day RCE vulnerability in MSHTML that affects Microsoft Windows. According to Microsoft: "we are aware of targeted attacks that attempt to exploit this vulnerability by using specially-crafted Microsoft Office documents. An attacker could craft a malicious ActiveX control to be used by a Microsoft Office document that hosts the browser rendering engine."

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Detection Logic

type.inbound
and any(attachments,
        (
          (
            .file_extension in~ $file_extensions_macros
            or .file_extension =~ "rtf"
            or (
              .file_extension is null
              and .file_type == "unknown"
              and .content_type == "application/octet-stream"
              and .size < 100000000
            )
          )
          and any(file.oletools(.).relationships,
                  regex.icontains(.target, ".*html:http.*")
          )
        )
        or (
          .file_extension in~ $file_extensions_common_archives
          and any(file.explode(.),
                  .flavors.mime == "text/xml"
                  and any(.scan.strings.strings,
                          regex.icontains(., ".*oleObject.*mhtml.*http.*")
                  )
          )
        )
)

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