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Suspicious MS Outlook Child Process
editSuspicious MS Outlook Child Process
editIdentifies suspicious child processes of Microsoft Outlook. These child processes are often associated with spear phishing activity.
Rule type: eql
Rule indices:
- winlogbeat-*
- logs-endpoint.events.*
- logs-windows.*
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
- Initial Access
Version: 10 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.2.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Investigation guide
edit## Config If enabling an EQL rule on a non-elastic-agent index (such as beats) for versions <8.2, events will not define `event.ingested` and default fallback for EQL rules was not added until 8.2, so you will need to add a custom pipeline to populate `event.ingested` to @timestamp for this rule to work.
Rule query
editprocess where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and process.parent.name : "outlook.exe" and process.name : ("Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler.exe", "arp.exe", "atbroker.exe", "bginfo.exe", "bitsadmin.exe", "cdb.exe", "certutil.exe", "cmd.exe", "cmstp.exe", "cscript.exe", "csi.exe", "dnx.exe", "dsget.exe", "dsquery.exe", "forfiles.exe", "fsi.exe", "ftp.exe", "gpresult.exe", "hostname.exe", "ieexec.exe", "iexpress.exe", "installutil.exe", "ipconfig.exe", "mshta.exe", "msxsl.exe", "nbtstat.exe", "net.exe", "net1.exe", "netsh.exe", "netstat.exe", "nltest.exe", "odbcconf.exe", "ping.exe", "powershell.exe", "pwsh.exe", "qprocess.exe", "quser.exe", "qwinsta.exe", "rcsi.exe", "reg.exe", "regasm.exe", "regsvcs.exe", "regsvr32.exe", "sc.exe", "schtasks.exe", "systeminfo.exe", "tasklist.exe", "tracert.exe", "whoami.exe", "wmic.exe", "wscript.exe", "xwizard.exe")
Threat mapping
editFramework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Initial Access
- ID: TA0001
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0001/
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Technique:
- Name: Phishing
- ID: T1566
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1566/
Rule version history
edit- Version 10 (8.2.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 9 (7.13.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.category:process and event.type:(start or process_started) and process.parent.name:outlook.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 8 (7.12.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 7 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 6 (7.11.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- 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:outlook.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:"outlook.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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