Office Mail Rule Creation with suspicious archive mail move activity
Hunting query to detect new inbox rule creation with activity of mail moved from inbox to archive folder within 12minutes.Though such activities could be legitimate some attackers may use these techniques to perform…
Description
Hunting query to detect new inbox rule creation with activity of mail moved from inbox to archive folder within 12minutes.Though such activities could be legitimate some attackers may use these techniques to perform email diversion attack.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- LinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source product
- office365
- Log source service
- officeactivity_exchange
MITRE ATT&CK mappings
0 exclusive techniques.This is coverage no other published rule has; it is not this rule's total technique count.
No references are available for this detection.
From the source
- At source
- Open at source
- Upstream identifier
- f50a26d7-ffdb-4471-90b9-3be78c60e4f2
- Tagged by the source as
- CollectionExfiltration
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Aug 29, 2026
- Version
- 1