Detection rules › Sigma

Suspicious PowerShell Mailbox Export to Share

Severity
critical
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects usage of the powerShell New-MailboxExportRequest Cmdlet to exports a mailbox to a remote or local share, as used in ProxyShell exploitations

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: ' -FilePath \\\\'
CommandLine|contains: ' -Mailbox '
CommandLine|contains: New-MailboxExportRequest

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
  • -FilePath \\\\
  • -Mailbox
  • New-MailboxExportRequest