Exporting Exchange Mailbox via PowerShell
editExporting Exchange Mailbox via PowerShell
editIdentifies 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: 7
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.name: ("powershell.exe", "pwsh.exe", "powershell_ise.exe") and process.args : "New-MailboxExportRequest*"
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Collection
- ID: TA0009
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0009/
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Technique:
- Name: Data from Local System
- ID: T1005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1005/
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Technique:
- Name: Email Collection
- ID: T1114
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1114/
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Sub-technique:
- Name: Remote Email Collection
- ID: T1114.002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1114/002/