Office Product Spawning Rundll32 with no DLL
Description
The following detection identifies the latest behavior utilized by IcedID malware family. This detection identifies any Windows Office Product spawning rundll32.exe
without a .dll
file extension. In malicious instances, the command-line of rundll32.exe
will look like rundll32 ..\oepddl.igk2,DllRegisterServer
. In addition, Threat Research has released a detection identifying the use of DllRegisterServer
on the command-line of rundll32.exe
. In this instance, we narrow our detection down to the Office suite as a parent process. During triage, review all file modifications. Capture and analyze the DLL
that was dropped to disk. The Office Product will have reached out to a remote destination, capture and block the IPs or domain. Review additional parallel processes for further activity.
- Type: TTP
- Product: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud
- Datamodel: Endpoint
- Last Updated: 2023-02-15
- Author: Michael Haag, Splunk
- ID: c661f6be-a38c-11eb-be57-acde48001122
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ATT&CK
Kill Chain Phase
- Delivery
NIST
- DE.CM
CIS20
- CIS 10
CVE
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| tstats `security_content_summariesonly` count min(_time) as firstTime max(_time) as lastTime from datamodel=Endpoint.Processes where Processes.parent_process_name IN ("winword.exe","excel.exe","powerpnt.exe","mspub.exe","visio.exe","onenote.exe","onenotem.exe","onenoteviewer.exe","onenoteim.exe", "msaccess.exe") `process_rundll32` (Processes.process!=*.dll*) by Processes.dest Processes.user Processes.parent_process Processes.process_name Processes.process Processes.process_id Processes.parent_process_id
| `drop_dm_object_name(Processes)`
| `security_content_ctime(firstTime)`
| `security_content_ctime(lastTime)`
| `office_product_spawning_rundll32_with_no_dll_filter`
Macros
The SPL above uses the following Macros:
office_product_spawning_rundll32_with_no_dll_filter is a empty macro by default. It allows the user to filter out any results (false positives) without editing the SPL.
Required fields
List of fields required to use this analytic.
- _time
- Processes.dest
- Processes.user
- Processes.parent_process_name
- Processes.parent_process
- Processes.original_file_name
- Processes.process_name
- Processes.process
- Processes.process_id
- Processes.parent_process_path
- Processes.process_path
- Processes.parent_process_id
How To Implement
To successfully implement this search you need to be ingesting information on process that include the name of the process responsible for the changes from your endpoints into the Endpoint
datamodel in the Processes
node. In addition, confirm the latest CIM App 4.20 or higher is installed and the latest TA for the endpoint product.
Known False Positives
False positives should be limited, but if any are present, filter as needed.
Associated Analytic Story
RBA
Risk Score | Impact | Confidence | Message |
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63.0 | 70 | 90 | office parent process $parent_process_name$ will execute a suspicious child process $process_name$ with process id $process_id$ and no dll commandline $process$ in host $dest$ |
The Risk Score is calculated by the following formula: Risk Score = (Impact * Confidence/100). Initial Confidence and Impact is set by the analytic author.
Reference
- https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/395471/0/html
- https://app.any.run/tasks/cef4b8ba-023c-4b3b-b2ef-6486a44f6ed9/
- https://any.run/malware-trends/icedid
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tool or the UI.
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