Suspicious Microsoft Office Child Process - MacOS

Detects suspicious child processes spawning from microsoft office suite applications such as word or excel. This could indicates malicious macro execution

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform: Linux macOS Office Suite Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 3 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
Log source product: macos
Log source category: process_creation

Known benign triggers

Unknown

References

Links the source published beside this detection. Reference is the link the source wrote, unmodified. Class is decided by this catalogue from the host and path, not stated by the source. Cited by counts published detections citing the same resource, including this one, and the sources beneath it count the repositories this catalogue ingests, which is not the same as independent research.
Reference	Class	Cited by
objective-see.org/blog/blog_0x4B.html	Unclassified	Only this detection cites it
redcanary.com/blog/applescript/	Security research	4

Detection rules

Suspicious Microsoft Office Child Process - MacOS

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules