Emerging Threathightest

Potential Exploitation Attempt From Office Application

Detects Office applications executing a child process that includes directory traversal patterns. This could be an attempt to exploit CVE-2022-30190 (MSDT RCE) or CVE-2021-40444 (MSHTML RCE)

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Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems), @sbousseadenCreated Thu Jun 02Updated Sat Feb 04868955d9-697e-45d4-a3da-360cefd7c2162021

Emerging Threat

Active Threat

Developed to detect an active or emerging threat. Prioritize investigation of any alerts and correlate with threat intelligence.

Log Source

WindowsProcess Creation

ProductWindows← raw: windows

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|endswith:
            - '\winword.exe'
            - '\excel.exe'
            - '\powerpnt.exe'
            - '\msaccess.exe'
            - '\mspub.exe'
            - '\eqnedt32.exe'
            - '\visio.exe'
        CommandLine|contains:
            - '../../../..'
            - '..\..\..\..'
            - '..//..//..//..'
    condition: selection