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Suspicious MS Office Child Process
editSuspicious MS Office Child Process
editIdentifies suspicious child processes of frequently targeted Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel). These child processes are often launched during exploitation of Office applications or from documents with malicious macros.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-endpoint.events.*
Severity: low
Risk score: 21
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
Tags:
- Elastic
- Host
- Windows
- Threat Detection
- Execution
Version: 5 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License
Rule query
editevent.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.parent.name:(eqnedt32.exe or excel.exe or fltldr.exe or msaccess.exe or mspub.exe or powerpnt.exe or winword.exe) and process.name:(Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler.exe or arp.exe or atbroker.exe or bginfo.exe or bitsadmin.exe or cdb.exe or certutil.exe or cmd.exe or cmstp.exe or cscript.exe or csi.exe or dnx.exe or dsget.exe or dsquery.exe or forfiles.exe or fsi.exe or ftp.exe or gpresult.exe or hostname.exe or ieexec.exe or iexpress.exe or installutil.exe or ipconfig.exe or mshta.exe or msxsl.exe or nbtstat.exe or net.exe or net1.exe or netsh.exe or netstat.exe or nltest.exe or odbcconf.exe or ping.exe or powershell.exe or pwsh.exe or qprocess.exe or quser.exe or qwinsta.exe or rcsi.exe or reg.exe or regasm.exe or regsvcs.exe or regsvr32.exe or sc.exe or schtasks.exe or systeminfo.exe or tasklist.exe or tracert.exe or whoami.exe or wmic.exe or wscript.exe or xwizard.exe)
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Execution
- ID: TA0002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/
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Technique:
- Name: Spearphishing Attachment
- ID: T1193
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1193/
Rule version history
edit- Version 5 (7.10.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 4 (7.9.1 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 3 (7.9.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.action:"Process Create (rule: ProcessCreate)" and process.parent.name:(eqnedt32.exe or excel.exe or fltldr.exe or msaccess.exe or mspub.exe or powerpnt.exe or winword.exe) and process.name:(Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler.exe or arp.exe or atbroker.exe or bginfo.exe or bitsadmin.exe or cdb.exe or certutil.exe or cmd.exe or cmstp.exe or cscript.exe or csi.exe or dnx.exe or dsget.exe or dsquery.exe or forfiles.exe or fsi.exe or ftp.exe or gpresult.exe or hostname.exe or ieexec.exe or iexpress.exe or installutil.exe or ipconfig.exe or mshta.exe or msxsl.exe or nbtstat.exe or net.exe or net1.exe or netsh.exe or netstat.exe or nltest.exe or odbcconf.exe or ping.exe or powershell.exe or pwsh.exe or qprocess.exe or quser.exe or qwinsta.exe or rcsi.exe or reg.exe or regasm.exe or regsvcs.exe or regsvr32.exe or sc.exe or schtasks.exe or systeminfo.exe or tasklist.exe or tracert.exe or whoami.exe or wmic.exe or wscript.exe or xwizard.exe)
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- Version 2 (7.7.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.action:"Process Create (rule: ProcessCreate)" and process.parent.name:("winword.exe" or "excel.exe" or "powerpnt.exe" or "eqnedt32.exe" or "fltldr.exe" or "mspub.exe" or "msaccess.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")
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