Suspicious Download from Office Domain
Detects suspicious ways to download files from Microsoft domains that are used to store attachments in Emails or OneNote documents
Detection logic
selection_download
- Image|endswith:
- \curl.exe
- \wget.exe
- CommandLine|contains:
- Invoke-WebRequest
- "iwr "
- "curl "
- "wget "
- Start-BitsTransfer
- .DownloadFile(
- .DownloadString(selection_domains
CommandLine|contains:
- https://attachment.outlook.live.net/owa/
- https://onenoteonlinesync.onenote.com/onenoteonlinesync/Condition
all of selection_*Raw YAML
title: Suspicious Download from Office Domain
id: 00d49ed5-4491-4271-a8db-650a4ef6f8c1
status: test
description: Detects suspicious ways to download files from Microsoft domains that are used to store attachments in Emails or OneNote documents
references:
- https://twitter.com/an0n_r0/status/1474698356635193346?s=12
- https://twitter.com/mrd0x/status/1475085452784844803?s=12
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
date: 2021-12-27
modified: 2022-08-02
tags:
- attack.command-and-control
- attack.resource-development
- attack.t1105
- attack.t1608
logsource:
product: windows
category: process_creation
detection:
selection_download:
- Image|endswith:
- '\curl.exe'
- '\wget.exe'
- CommandLine|contains:
- 'Invoke-WebRequest'
- 'iwr '
- 'curl '
- 'wget '
- 'Start-BitsTransfer'
- '.DownloadFile('
- '.DownloadString('
selection_domains:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'https://attachment.outlook.live.net/owa/'
- 'https://onenoteonlinesync.onenote.com/onenoteonlinesync/'
condition: all of selection_*
falsepositives:
- Scripts or tools that download attachments from these domains (OneNote, Outlook 365)
level: highFalse positives
- Scripts or tools that download attachments from these domains (OneNote, Outlook 365)