Microsoft Office Equation Editor spawns a commonly abused process

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Microsoft Office Equation Editor spawns a commonly abused process

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability.

Module:: Platform Analytics
Agent event type:: Process execution
Category:: Execution
Status:: Enabled

ATT&CK tactics: Execution (TA0002)

ATT&CK techniques: Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203)

Indicator:

Process action type = execution AND target process name = cmd.exe , powershell.exe , mshta.exe , wscript.exe , cscript.exe , regsvr32.exe Process initiated by = EQNEDT32.EXE , cgo name = EQNEDT32.EXE

Preventable: yes