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Active Rule

Office Application Initiated Network Connection Over Uncommon Ports

Target Profile

Splunk

Splunk SPL & tstats data model queries

Format Mode

Default

Plain SPL queries

Conversion Output

Office Application Initiated Network Connection Over Uncommon Ports

Using Splunk · Default · sigma-cli 2.0.2

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BackendSplunkFormatDefaultVersion2.0.2
title: Office Application Initiated Network Connection Over Uncommon Ports
id: 3b5ba899-9842-4bc2-acc2-12308498bf42
status: test
description: Detects an office suit application (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) communicating to target systems over uncommon ports.
references:
    - https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2023/07/romcom-targets-ukraine-nato-membership-talks-at-nato-summit
author: X__Junior (Nextron Systems), Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
date: 2023-07-12
modified: 2025-10-17
tags:
    - attack.defense-evasion
    - attack.command-and-control
logsource:
    category: network_connection
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        Initiated: 'true'
        Image|endswith:
            - '\excel.exe'
            - '\outlook.exe'
            - '\powerpnt.exe'
            - '\winword.exe'
            - '\wordview.exe'
    filter_main_common_ports:
        DestinationPort:
            - 53 # DNS
            - 80 # HTTP
            - 139 # NETBIOS
            - 389 # LDAP
            - 443 # HTTPS
            - 445 # SMB
            - 3268 # MSFT-GC
    filter_main_outlook_ports:
        Image|contains: ':\Program Files\Microsoft Office\'
        Image|endswith: '\OUTLOOK.EXE'
        DestinationPort:
            - 143
            - 465 # SMTP
            - 587 # SMTP
            - 993 # IMAP
            - 995 # POP3
    condition: selection and not 1 of filter_main_*
falsepositives:
    - Other ports can be used, apply additional filters accordingly
level: medium

CLI command

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sigma convert --without-pipeline -t splunk -f default rules/windows/network_connection/net_connection_win_office_uncommon_ports.yml