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Potential Microsoft Office Sandbox Evasion

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Potential Microsoft Office Sandbox Evasion

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Identifies the creation of a suspicious zip file prepended with special characters. Sandboxed Microsoft Office applications on macOS are allowed to write files that start with special characters, which can be combined with an AutoStart location to achieve sandbox evasion.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

auditbeat-*
logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5m

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

Domain: Endpoint
OS: macOS
Use Case: Threat Detection
Tactic: Defense Evasion
Data Source: Elastic Defend

Version: 104

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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event.category:file and host.os.type:(macos and macos) and not event.type:deletion and file.name:~$*.zip

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/
Technique:
- Name: Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion
- ID: T1497
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1497/

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