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    Suspicious OWA Inbox Rule Manipulation

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    GlassDiceBearhttps://www.dicebear.comhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Glass” (https://www.dicebear.com) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
    Ethan Andrews@eandrews
    •updated May 20, 2026•36•1•641

    Detects HTTP POST requests to the OWA directory containing rule or forwarding parameters, which may indicate an attacker attempting to establish persistence via inbox rule manipulation after hijacking a session. Associated with CVE-2026-42897 post-exploitation activity.

    Microsoft Sentinel (KQL)

    Tags

    TA0003 - PersistenceT1137.005 - Outlook RulesHTTP RequestAdmin ActivityWindowsMicrosoft IisMicrosoft Exchange ServerCVE-2026-42897kql

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