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Detects Gamaredon (Armageddon) group activity characterized by Microsoft Office applications (winword.exe or excel.exe) writing to global template files (Normal.dotm or Personal.xlsb) to implant malicious macros, or dropping .vbs or .lnk files into startup or template directories to achieve persistence and facilitate further propagation.
Detects the presence of known malicious Outlook VBA project files (VbaProject.OTM), modifications to Outlook macro-security registry keys to enable macro execution, and subsequent network activity initiated by Outlook on devices that have exhibited these suspicious behaviors.
Detects the presence of known malicious Outlook VBA project files (VbaProject.OTM), modifications to Outlook macro-security registry keys to enable macro execution, and subsequent network activity initiated by Outlook on devices that have exhibited these suspicious behaviors.
Detects the presence of known malicious Outlook VBA project files (VbaProject.OTM), modifications to Outlook macro-security registry keys to enable macro execution, and subsequent network activity initiated by Outlook on devices that have exhibited these suspicious behaviors.
This rule detects the download of Office template files (such as .dot, .dotm, .xlt, .xltm, .pot, .potm) that contain VBA project content. This is indicative of potentially malicious Office documents designed to execute macros, often used for initial access or persistence by attackers.
Detects Office documents fetching remote templates for template injection attacks
Detects download of macro-enabled Office templates for persistent macro execution
Detects when a potentially malicious file (such as a macro-enabled document, executable, or script) is created within a directory configured as a Microsoft Office Trusted Location. Attackers may place malicious files in these locations to ensure they are opened by the user without security warnings (like Protected View or macro-blocking), facilitating code execution. This rule correlates file creation events with trusted paths dynamically enumerated from the device's registry.
The analytic detects the use of Windows Curl.exe to download a file to a suspicious location, such as AppData, ProgramData, or Public directories. It leverages data from Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agents, focusing on command-line executions that include the -O or --output options. This activity is significant because downloading files to these locations can indicate an attempt to bypass security controls or establish persistence. If confirmed malicious, this behavior could lead to unauthorized code execution, data exfiltration, or further compromise of the system.
KQL Query from file: Vulnerability Profile: CVE-2024-30040 (Zero-day)
KQL Query from file: Detect & mitigate potential Specula Exploitation
KQL Query
Listing Email Remediation Actions performed via Explorer in Defender for Office 365
This query looks for users accessing multiple other users' mailboxes, or accessing multiple folders in another user's mailbox.
This query is inspired by an Azure Sentinel detection.
Reference - https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Hunting%20Queries/OfficeActivity/AnomolousUserAccessingOtherUsersMailbox.yaml
This query is inspired by an Azure Sentinel detection.
Reference - https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Hunting%20Queries/OfficeActivity/AnomolousUserAccessingOtherUsersMailbox.yaml
This query helps in reviewing top policies for user overrides (Allow/Block)
This query correlates Microsoft Defender for Office 365 signals and Microsoft Entra ID identity data to find the relevant endpoint event BrowerLaunchedToOpen in Microsoft Defender ATP.
This event reflects relevant clicks on the malicious URL in the spear-phishing email recognized by Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
This event reflects relevant clicks on the malicious URL in the spear-phishing email recognized by Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
Bazacall uses malicious macro-enabled Excel documents to execute their payload.
This query was originally published in the threat analytics report, Trickbot: Pervasive & underestimated.
Trickbot is a very prevalent piece of malware with an array of malicious capabilities. Originally designed to steal banking credentials, it has since evolved into a modular trojan that can deploy other malware, disable security software, and perform command-and-control (C2) operations.
Trickbot is frequently spread through email. An attacker will send a target a message with an attachment containing a malicious macro. If the target enables the macro, it will write a JScript Encoded (JSE) file to disk (JScript is a Microsoft dialect of ECMAScript). The JSE file will then be launched using wscript.exe to perform a variety of malicious tasks, particularly reconnaissance.
The following query detects when Office applications have launched wscript.exe to run a JSE file.
See Detect rundll.exe being used for reconnaissance and command-and-control for another query related to Trickbot activity.
Reference - https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0266/
Trickbot is a very prevalent piece of malware with an array of malicious capabilities. Originally designed to steal banking credentials, it has since evolved into a modular trojan that can deploy other malware, disable security software, and perform command-and-control (C2) operations.
Trickbot is frequently spread through email. An attacker will send a target a message with an attachment containing a malicious macro. If the target enables the macro, it will write a JScript Encoded (JSE) file to disk (JScript is a Microsoft dialect of ECMAScript). The JSE file will then be launched using wscript.exe to perform a variety of malicious tasks, particularly reconnaissance.
The following query detects when Office applications have launched wscript.exe to run a JSE file.
See Detect rundll.exe being used for reconnaissance and command-and-control for another query related to Trickbot activity.
Reference - https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0266/
BazaCall is a campaign that manipulate users into calling a customer support center, where they are instructed to download an Excel file to unsubscribe from a phony service. When the user opens the Excel file, they are prompted to enable a malicious macro that infects their device with BazaLoader.
This query surfaces connections to the distinctive .xyz domains that the BazaCall campaign uses to host malicious Excel files.
This query surfaces connections to the distinctive .xyz domains that the BazaCall campaign uses to host malicious Excel files.
This rule detects the creation of files with uncommon extensions within Microsoft Office application startup folders, specifically for Word and Excel. Adversaries often leverage these folders to establish persistence by placing malicious documents, templates, or add-ins that execute automatically when the respective Office application is launched. The rule filters out common and legitimate Office file extensions to reduce false positives.
