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Potential Maldoc Execution Chain Observed
Detects the aftermath of a successfully executed Microsoft Office maldoc: a document opened from an email or download spawns a suspicious execution and attempts to run code via common Windows binaries such as…
Description
Detects the aftermath of a successfully executed Microsoft Office maldoc: a document opened from an email or download spawns a suspicious execution and attempts to run code via common Windows binaries such as powershell, cmd or rundll32.
Detection logic
Detection requirements
- Platform
- ContainersESXiIaaSIdentity ProviderLinuxmacOSNetwork DevicesOffice SuiteSaaSWindows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
- Log source product
- securityeventswindowssecurityevents
- Log source service
- securityevent
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
- 02909982-664b-4858-b703-429cbe031fef
- Tagged by the source as
- ExecutionInitialAccess
Licence
- Published under
- MIT LicenseRead the licence
- Attribution
- Required
- Obtained under
- MITRead the origin licence
Authorship
- Published
- Sep 1, 2026
- Version
- 1