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Outlook EnableUnsafeClientMailRules Setting Enabled

Severity
high
Author
Markus Neis, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects an attacker trying to enable the outlook security setting "EnableUnsafeClientMailRules" which allows outlook to run applications or execute macros

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Defense EvasionT1202 Indirect Command Execution

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: '\Outlook\Security\EnableUnsafeClientMailRules'

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
CommandLinematch
  • \Outlook\Security\EnableUnsafeClientMailRules