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Active Rule
VBA DLL Loaded Via Office Application
Target Profile
Splunk
Splunk SPL & tstats data model queries
Format Mode
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Conversion Output
VBA DLL Loaded Via Office Application
Using Splunk · Default · sigma-cli 2.0.2
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BackendSplunkFormatDefaultVersion2.0.2
title: VBA DLL Loaded Via Office Application
id: e6ce8457-68b1-485b-9bdd-3c2b5d679aa9
status: test
description: Detects VB DLL's loaded by an office application. Which could indicate the presence of VBA Macros.
references:
- https://medium.com/threatpunter/detecting-adversary-tradecraft-with-image-load-event-logging-and-eql-8de93338c16
author: Antonlovesdnb
date: 2020-02-19
modified: 2023-02-10
tags:
- attack.execution
- attack.t1204.002
logsource:
category: image_load
product: windows
detection:
selection:
Image|endswith:
- '\excel.exe'
- '\mspub.exe'
- '\onenote.exe'
- '\onenoteim.exe' # Just in case
- '\outlook.exe'
- '\powerpnt.exe'
- '\winword.exe'
ImageLoaded|endswith:
- '\VBE7.DLL'
- '\VBEUI.DLL'
- '\VBE7INTL.DLL'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitimate macro usage. Add the appropriate filter according to your environment
level: high
CLI command
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sigma convert --without-pipeline -t splunk -f default rules/windows/image_load/image_load_office_vbadll_load.yml