Analytics BIOC Informational

Possible Email collection using Outlook RPC

Outlook was executed using RPC by an uncommon parent process, this may be an indication of email collection activities.

Module:
Platform Analytics
Data source:
XDR Agent
ATT&CK tactics: Collection (TA0009)
ATT&CK techniques: Email Collection: Local Email Collection (T1114.001)
Attacker's goals:

An attacker is trying to perform email collection or manipulation using Outlook.

Investigative actions:

Investigate the endpoint to determine if it's a legitimate process that is supposed to use Outlook in its operation to send or extract emails.

Test period:
N/A (single event)
Deduplication:
1 Day