CVE-2021-26858 Exchange Exploitation
Detects possible successful exploitation for vulnerability described in CVE-2021-26858 by looking for creation of non-standard files on disk by Exchange Server’s Unified Messaging service which could indicate dropping web shells or other malicious content
Detection logic
selection
Image|endswith: UMWorkerProcess.exefilter
TargetFilename|endswith:
- CacheCleanup.bin
- .txt
- .LOG
- .cfg
- cleanup.binCondition
selection and not filterRaw YAML
title: CVE-2021-26858 Exchange Exploitation
id: b06335b3-55ac-4b41-937e-16b7f5d57dfd
status: test
description: |
Detects possible successful exploitation for vulnerability described in CVE-2021-26858 by looking for
creation of non-standard files on disk by Exchange Server’s Unified Messaging service
which could indicate dropping web shells or other malicious content
references:
- https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/03/02/hafnium-targeting-exchange-servers/
author: Bhabesh Raj
date: 2021-03-03
modified: 2022-10-09
tags:
- attack.t1203
- attack.execution
- cve.2021-26858
- detection.emerging-threats
logsource:
category: file_event
product: windows
detection:
selection:
Image|endswith: 'UMWorkerProcess.exe'
filter:
TargetFilename|endswith:
- 'CacheCleanup.bin'
- '.txt'
- '.LOG'
- '.cfg'
- 'cleanup.bin'
condition: selection and not filter
falsepositives:
- Unknown
level: highFalse positives
- Unknown
References
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