Office Product Spawning MSHTA
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Detects instances where an Office product initiates the spawning of the MSHTA process
Severity
Critical
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND ((PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "winword.exe" OR PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "excel.exe" OR PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "powerpnt.exe" OR PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "mspub.exe" OR PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "visio.exe" OR PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "onenote.exe" OR PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "onenotem.exe" OR PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "msaccess.exe" OR PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "Graph.exe" OR PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "winproj.exe") AND PROCESSNAME endswith "mshta.exe") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
