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Microsoft Exchange Server UM Writing Suspicious Files
Identifies suspicious files being written by the Microsoft Exchange Server Unified Messaging (UM) service. This activity has been observed exploiting CVE-2021-26858.
Detection Logic
file where host.os.type == "windows" and event.type == "creation" and
process.name : ("UMWorkerProcess.exe", "umservice.exe") and
file.extension : ("php", "jsp", "js", "aspx", "asmx", "asax", "cfm", "shtml") and
(
file.path : "?:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\aspnet_client\\*" or
(file.path : "?:\\*\\Microsoft\\Exchange Server*\\FrontEnd\\HttpProxy\\owa\\auth\\*" and
not (file.path : "?:\\*\\Microsoft\\Exchange Server*\\FrontEnd\\HttpProxy\\owa\\auth\\version\\*" or
file.name : ("errorFE.aspx", "expiredpassword.aspx", "frowny.aspx", "GetIdToken.htm", "logoff.aspx",
"logon.aspx", "OutlookCN.aspx", "RedirSuiteServiceProxy.aspx", "signout.aspx"))) or
(file.path : "?:\\*\\Microsoft\\Exchange Server*\\FrontEnd\\HttpProxy\\ecp\\auth\\*" and
not file.name : "TimeoutLogoff.aspx")
) False Positives
- ⚠ Files generated during installation will generate a lot of noise, so the rule should only be enabled after the fact.
- ⚠ This rule was tuned using the following baseline: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/CSS-Exchange/main/Security/Baselines/baseline_15.2.792.5.csv from Microsoft. Depending on version, consult https://github.com/microsoft/CSS-Exchange/tree/main/Security/Baselines to help determine normalcy.
Field Validations
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