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Inhibit System Recovery via Microsoft Office Process
Identifies the use of Windows commands to tamper with system recovery settings via Microsoft Office processes. Ransomware and other malware may do this to prevent system recovery.
Detection Logic
process where event.action == "start" and
descendant of [process where event.action == "start" and
process.name : (
"WINWORD.EXE",
"EXCEL.EXE",
"POWERPNT.EXE",
"MSACCESS.EXE",
"MSPUB.EXE",
"fltldr.exe"
)] and
not descendant of [process where event.action == "start" and
process.name : (
"iexplore.exe",
"msedge.exe",
"microsoftedge.exe",
"chrome.exe",
"firefox.exe",
"opera.exe",
"safari.exe"
)] and
(
(process.pe.original_file_name : "wmic.exe" and process.command_line : "*shadowcopy*" and process.command_line : "*delete*") or
(process.pe.original_file_name : "vssadmin.exe" and process.command_line : "*shadows*" and process.command_line : ("*delete*", "*resize*")) or
(process.pe.original_file_name : "bcdedit.exe" and process.command_line : ("*bootstatuspolicy*", "*recoveryenabled*")) or
(process.pe.original_file_name : "wbadmin.exe" and process.command_line : ("*catalog*", "*systemstatebackup*") and process.command_line : "*delete*")
) Field Validations
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