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This meant that if you downloaded an archive from the Internet and extracted it with 7-zip, the Mark-of-the-Web would not propagate to the extracted files, and Windows would not treat the extracted files as risky.

For example, if you downloaded a ZIP file containing a Word document, the ZIP file would have a MoTW, but the extracted Word document would not. Therefore, Microsoft Office would not open the file in Protected View.

To enable this setting, search for and open the '7-Zip File Manager,' and when it opens, click on Tools and then Options. Under the 7-Zip tab, you will now see a new option titled 'Propagate Zone.Id stream' and the ability to set it to 'No,' 'Yes,' or 'For Office files.'

For example, when I get an file by Outlook or Thunderbird they mark it as untrusted, but .zip Tools doesnt, so if an "trusting" user opens a foreign (marked as untrusted) .zip the Files are directly marked as trusted an maybee he can get infected...

In 7-Zip v9.2, double-clicking on an exe in a .7z does not mark the temp-extracted file with a MotW. In v15.14 temp-extracted files are tagged, even though normally-extracted files are not. I've mentioned that in the post.

In your article, you write:Despite being one of the worst ZIP clients available, Windows Explorer gets this right. And then there is screenshot when you open file with double-click in explorer. Then you write in next paragraph: In contrast, 7-zip does not". That is wrong claim. Why you don't show screenshot for double-click in 7-zip, if you use double-click screenshot for explorer?

While I agree strongly that extracting files should not invisibly discard this security warning, it would be a major annoyance to end up with an entire tree of extracted files, each of which must be unblocked.

Hi,Still the same issue with the latest v19.0. This is a security problem as we use attachment manager to protect our workstations against download of exec files from Internet.Other unzippers haven't this problem. Why is this bug not yet fixed ?Thanks

Your payload in the format of an executable, MS Office file or CHM file is likely to receive extra scrutiny from the Windows OS and security products when that file is marked as downloaded from the internet. In this blog post we will explain how this mechanism works and we will explore offensive techniques that can help evade or get rid of MOTW.

When downloading a file, Internet Explorer creates an ADS named Zone.Identifier and adds a ZoneId to this stream in order to indicate from which zone the file originates. Although it is not an official name, many people still refer to this functionality as Mark-of-the-Web.

This feature works by checking downloaded executable files (based on Zone Identifier ADS) against a whitelist of files that are well known and downloaded by many Windows users. If the file is not on that list, Windows Defender SmartScreen shows the following warning:

MWR (now F-Secure labs) has published a great technical write-up on this sandbox some years ago. Note that some MS Office file types cannot be loaded in the Protected View sandbox. SYLK is a famous example of this.

This feature was introduced in Office 2016 and later back-ported to Office 2013. If this setting is enabled, macros in MS Office files flagged with MOTW are disabled and a message is displayed to the user.

Opening untrusted Visual Studio project files can be dangerous (see my presentation at Nullcon Goa 2020 for the reasons why). By default, Visual Studio will display a warning message for any project file which has the MOTW attribute set.

Of course there is a third strategy: social engineering the user into removing the MOTW attribute (right click file -> properties -> unblock). But since this is a technical blog post, this strategy is out of scope for this write-up. And for the blue team: you can technically prevent your end-users from doing this by setting HideZoneInfoOnProperties via group policy.

Another famous example of software that does not set a Zone.Identifier ADS is 7Zip. This archiving client only sets a MOTW flag when a file is double-clicked from the GUI, which means the file is extracted to the temp directory and opened from there. However, upon manual extraction of files to other locations (i.e. clicking the extract button instead of double-clicking), 7Zip does not propagate a Zone.Identifier ADS for extracted files. Note that this works regardless of the archiving file format: any extension handled by 7zip (7z, zip, rar, etc) will demonstrate this behavior.

When opening such a container with Windows Explorer, MOTW on the outside container will not be propagated to files inside the container. This is demonstrated in the screenshot below: the downloaded ISO is flagged with MOTW, but the payload inside the ISO is not.

First of all, the fact that a security measure can be circumvented does not render such a measure useless. There will be plenty of attackers that do not use the techniques described in this blog post. In particular, I am a big fan of the measure to block macros in files downloaded from the internet which is available in MS Office 2013 and subsequent versions.

Start thinking about which other measures you can take in case attackers are trying to evade MOTW. For example, if feasible for your organization, block container formats in your mail filter and proxy. Also, limit the impact of any malicious files that may have bypassed measures relying on MOTW, for example using Attack Surface Reduction rules.

Within the file, the ZoneTransfer element contains a ZoneId element with the ordinal value of the URLMon Zone from which the file came1. The value 3 indicates that the file is from the Internet Zone2.

The first hurdle is that Internet clients must explicitly mark their downloads using the Mark-of-the-Web, either by calling IAttachmentExecute or by writing the Alternate Data Stream directly. Most popular clients will do so, but support is neither universal nor comprehensive.

Microsoft Outlook (tested v2010) and Microsoft Windows Live Mail Desktop (tested v2012 16.4.3563.0918) both tag message attachments with a MotW you double-click on an attachment or right-click and choose Save As. Unfortunately, however, both clients fail to tag attachments if the user uses drag-and-drop to copy the attachment to somewhere in their filesystem. This oversight is likely to be seen in many different clients, owing to the complexity in determining the drop destination.

The Zone.Identifier stream can only be saved in an NTFS stream. These streams are not available on FAT32-formatted devices (e.g. some USB Flash drives), CD/DVDs, or the ReFS file system in Windows 8 / Server 2012 (support was later added to ReFS in Windows 8.1).

Writing of the MoTW can be suppressed in the AttachmentExecuteServices API via Group Policy. In GPEdit.msc, see Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Attachment Manager > Do not preserve zone information in file attachments

For data URIs or other anonymous sources, writing a default of about:internet is a common conservative choice to ensure that the file was treated as if it came from the Internet Zone. Similarly, about:untrusted causes the file to be treated as originating from the Restricted Sites Zone.

One simple trick that attackers use to try to circumvent MotW protections is to enclose their data within an archive like a .ZIP, .7z, or .RAR file, or a virtual disk like a .iso file. Attackers may go further and add a password to block virus scanners; the password is provided to the victim in the attacking webpage or email.

Similarly, on systems with Microsoft SmartScreen, SmartScreen itself may unmark the file (actually, it replaces the ZoneId with an (undocumented) field of AppZoneId=4) Update March 2022: SmartScreen now seems to have changed to write a separate SmartScreen alternate stream from Edge, rather than modifying the Zone.Identifier stream. Update Feb 2023: When executing a program from the Windows Shell in Win11, the Zone.Identifier stream is removed from the file after the AppRep check.

1 This is an oversimplification. The ZoneId value written is the least-privileged zone of the calculated zones for the caller-supplied Source URL and the Referrer URL. Interestingly, this means that if you download a Trusted Zone file from a link on an Internet Zone webpage, it will be treated as if it had originated from the Internet Zone.

2 The Windows Zone identifier constants are Restricted Zone=4, Internet=3, Trusted Zone=2, Intranet=1. The Local Machine Zone is 0, but the API will not write a Zone.Identifier stream for a file whose ZoneId is 0.

Windows can natively calculate file hashes via certutil.exe -hashfile c:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe [MD2 MD4 MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512] but this is only useful if the expected hash is securely communicated (and you are able to validate the sender). Authenticode helps resolve both of those challenges.

The Attachment Manager is included in Microsoft Windows to help protect your computer from unsafe attachments that you might receive with an e-mail message and from unsafe files that you might save from the Internet. If the Attachment Manager identifies an attachment that might be unsafe, the Attachment Manager prevents you from opening the file, or it warns you before you open the file. For more information about Attachment Manager, go to the "More Information" section.

Many people encounter issues when they try to download a file or a program from the Internet. This could be caused by a number of reasons. Here we provide two general solutions for you to try if you are getting an error that your download is blocked, or if you get "virus scan failed" or "virus detected" messages.

You may receive a "Virus scan failed" or "Virus detected" error message when you try to open or save a file or a program from Internet. In most cases, it is not caused by the Windows operating system, but by the antivirus software. If you are certain that the source you are trying to open is safe and trusted, try the following workaround to disable the virus scanning temporarily, and then enable the virus scanning immediately after you complete downloading the program or file. You have to be very cautious about using this workaround. Otherwise, you may be exposed to virus attacks. 781b155fdc