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Persistence via Microsoft Office AddInsedit
Detects attempts to establish persistence on an endpoint by abusing Microsoft Office add-ins.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-windows.*
Severity: high
Risk score: 73
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Persistence
Version: 4 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.2.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Investigation guideedit
## Config If enabling an EQL rule on a non-elastic-agent index (such as beats) for versions <8.2, events will not define `event.ingested` and default fallback for EQL rules was not added until 8.2, so you will need to add a custom pipeline to populate `event.ingested` to @timestamp for this rule to work.
Rule queryedit
file where event.type != "deletion" and file.extension : ("wll","xll","ppa","ppam","xla","xlam") and file.path : ( "C:\\Users\\*\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Word\\Startup\\*", "C:\\Users\\*\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\AddIns\\*", "C:\\Users\\*\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Excel\\XLSTART\\*" )
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
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Technique:
- Name: Office Application Startup
- ID: T1137
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1137/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 4 (8.2.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 3 (7.12.0 release)
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-
Updated query, changed from:
file where event.type != "deletion" and wildcard(file.extension,"wll","xll","ppa","ppam","xla","xlam") and wildcard(file.path, "C:\\Users\\*\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Word\\Startup\\*", "C:\\Users\\*\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\AddIns\\*", "C:\\Users\\*\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Excel\\XLSTART\\*")
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- Version 2 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only