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Suspicious Microsoft Office Child Process - MacOS

Detects suspicious child processes spawning from microsoft office suite applications such as word or excel. This could indicates malicious macro execution

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Sohan G (D4rkCiph3r)Created Tue Jan 31Updated Sat Feb 0469483748-1525-4a6c-95ca-90dc8d431b68macos

Log Source

macOSProcess Creation

ProductmacOS← raw: macos

CategoryProcess Creation← raw: process_creation

Events generated when a new process is spawned on the system. Covers command-line arguments, parent/child relationships, and process metadata.

Detection Logic

detection:
    selection:
        ParentImage|contains:
            - 'Microsoft Word'
            - 'Microsoft Excel'
            - 'Microsoft PowerPoint'
            - 'Microsoft OneNote'
        Image|endswith:
            - '/bash'
            - '/curl'
            - '/dash'
            - '/fish'
            - '/osacompile'
            - '/osascript'
            - '/sh'
            - '/zsh'
            - '/python'
            - '/python3'
            - '/wget'
    condition: selection