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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.
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 Field Validations
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