Suspicious MS Outlook Child Process

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Suspicious MS Outlook Child Process

Identifies suspicious child processes of Microsoft Outlook. These child processes are often associated with spear phishing activity.

Rule indices:

winlogbeat-*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum signals per execution: 100

Tags:

Elastic
Windows

Rule version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Rule query

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event.action:"Process Create (rule: ProcessCreate)" and
process.parent.name:"outlook.exe" and process.name:("arp.exe" or
"dsquery.exe" or "dsget.exe" or "gpresult.exe" or "hostname.exe" or
"ipconfig.exe" or "nbtstat.exe" or "net.exe" or "net1.exe" or
"netsh.exe" or "netstat.exe" or "nltest.exe" or "ping.exe" or
"qprocess.exe" or "quser.exe" or "qwinsta.exe" or "reg.exe" or
"sc.exe" or "systeminfo.exe" or "tasklist.exe" or "tracert.exe" or
"whoami.exe" or "bginfo.exe" or "cdb.exe" or "cmstp.exe" or "csi.exe"
or "dnx.exe" or "fsi.exe" or "ieexec.exe" or "iexpress.exe" or
"installutil.exe" or "Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler.exe" or
"msbuild.exe" or "mshta.exe" or "msxsl.exe" or "odbcconf.exe" or
"rcsi.exe" or "regsvr32.exe" or "xwizard.exe" or "atbroker.exe" or
"forfiles.exe" or "schtasks.exe" or "regasm.exe" or "regsvcs.exe" or
"cmd.exe" or "cscript.exe" or "powershell.exe" or "pwsh.exe" or
"wmic.exe" or "wscript.exe" or "bitsadmin.exe" or "certutil.exe" or
"ftp.exe")

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Execution
- ID: TA0002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/
Technique:
- Name: Spearphishing Attachment
- ID: T1193
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1193/

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