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Exporting Exchange Mailbox via PowerShell

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Exporting Exchange Mailbox via PowerShell

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Identifies the use of the Exchange PowerShell cmdlet, New-MailBoxExportRequest, to export the contents of a primary mailbox or archive to a .pst file. Adversaries may target user email to collect sensitive information.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

logs-endpoint.events.*
winlogbeat-*
logs-windows.*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

Elastic
Host
Windows
Threat Detection
Collection

Version: 4

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and
  process.name: ("powershell.exe", "pwsh.exe") and process.args : "New-MailboxExportRequest*"

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Collection
- ID: TA0009
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0009/
Technique:
- Name: Email Collection
- ID: T1114
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1114/
Technique:
- Name: Data from Local System
- ID: T1005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1005/

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