Office Macros Warning Disabled

Severity: high
Author: Trent Liffick (@tliffick), Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source: upstream

Detects registry changes to Microsoft Office "VBAWarning" to a value of "1" which enables the execution of all macros, whether signed or unsigned.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Persistence	`T1112` Modify Registry
Defense Evasion	`T1112` Modify Registry

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	13	RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

Details: 'DWORD (0x00000001)'
TargetObject|endswith: '\Security\VBAWarnings'

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.