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Execution via Outlook Application COM Object

Identifies the execution of commonly abused utilities to run DLLs or scripts via the Outlook.Application COM Object. This behavior may indicate adversarial activity to evade defenses on the system.

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Detection Logic

sequence with maxspan=1m
   /* Outlook started via DCOM */
 [process where event.action == "start" and
  process.name : "outlook.exe" and process. command_line : "*-Embedding*" and
  process.parent.name : "svchost.exe"] by process.entity_id
   /* Suspicious Outlook child processes */
 [process where event.action == "start" and
   process.pe.original_file_name :
               ("cscript.exe",
                "wscript.exe",
                "powershell.exe",
                "rundll32.exe",
                "cmd.exe",
                "mshta.exe",
                "msbuild.exe",
                "InstallUtil.exe",
                "Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler.exe",
                "wmic.exe",
                "regsvr32.exe",
                "pwsh.exe",
                "ScriptRunner.exe") and not
   /* Issue #330 */
   (process.name:"rundll32.exe" and process.args : ("--eoim", "--enable-speech-input")) and

   not (process.name : "rundll32.exe" and process.args : "?:\\WINDOWS\\sys*\\spool\\DRIVERS\\x64\\3\\*.dll,MonitorPrintJobStatus")] by process.parent.entity_id

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