Detection rules › Sigma

Suspicious Outlook Macro Created

Severity
high
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects the creation of a macro file for Outlook.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
PersistenceT1137 Office Application Startup, T1546 Event Triggered Execution
Privilege EscalationT1546 Event Triggered Execution
Command & ControlT1008 Fallback Channels

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon11FileCreate

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

TargetFilename|endswith: '\Microsoft\Outlook\VbaProject.OTM'

Stage 2: not filter

Image|endswith: '\outlook.exe'

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
Imageends_with
  • \outlook.exe corpus 16 (sigma 16)
TargetFilenameends_with
  • \Microsoft\Outlook\VbaProject.OTM corpus 2 (sigma 2)

Neighbors

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