rule Contains_DDE_Protocol { meta: author = "Nick Beede" description = "Detect Dynamic Data Exchange protocol in doc/docx" reference = "https://sensepost.com/blog/2017/macro-less-code-exec-in-msword/" date = "2017-10-19" filetype = "Office documents" strings: $doc = {D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1} $s1 = { 13 64 64 65 61 75 74 6F 20 } // !!ddeauto $s2 = { 13 64 64 65 20 } // !!dde $s3 = "dde" nocase $s4 = "ddeauto" nocase condition: ($doc at 0) and 2 of ($s1, $s2, $s3, $s4) }