Potential Persistence Via Outlook Home Page

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects potential persistence activity via outlook home page. An attacker can set a home page to achieve code execution and persistence by editing the WebView registry keys.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Registry value modified" AND ((OBJECTNAME contains "\Software\Microsoft\Office" AND OBJECTNAME contains "\Outlook\WebView") OR ((OBJECTNAME endswith "\Software\Microsoft\Office" AND isExist(OBJECTVALUENAME)) OR (OBJECTNAME endswith "\Outlook\WebView" AND isExist(OBJECTVALUENAME)))) AND OBJECTNAME endswith "\URL" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.OBJECTNAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.PREVVAL,Action1.CHANGES

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Tobias Michalski (Nextron Systems), David Bertho (@dbertho) & Eirik Sveen (@0xSV1), Storebrand