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  • Microsoft Office Process Spawning a Suspicious One-Liner Low

    A Microsoft Office process spawned a commonly abused process with a full command (not a script), this is a typically malicious behavior.

    Activation:
    14 Days
    Training:
    30 Days
    Test:
    N/A (single event)
    Deduplication:
    1 Day
    ATT&CK tactics: Execution (TA0002) Initial Access (TA0001)
    ATT&CK techniques: User Execution (T1204) Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment (T1566.001)
    Required data: XDR Agent
    Attacker's goals: An attacker is trying to gain code execution on the host.
    Investigative actions: Check whether the command line executed is benign or normal for the host and/or user performing it. For example, employees working in finance may have legitimate use cases for complex Excel commands.