Email Forwarding Rule - Suspicious Rule Names
Detects the creation of email forwarding rules with suspicious names. Part of the RedCanary 2024 Threat Detection Report.
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1title: Email Forwarding Rule - Suspicious Rule Names
2id: 47ea2a13-f863-4403-a672-00b3d940ac92
3status: experimental
4description: |
5 Detects the creation of email forwarding rules with suspicious names. Part of the
6 RedCanary 2024 Threat Detection Report.
7references:
8 - https://redcanary.com/threat-detection-report/techniques/email-forwarding-rule/
9author: RedCanary, Sigma formatting by Micah Babinski
10date: 2024/03/21
11tags:
12 - attack.collection
13 - attack.t1114
14 - attack.t1114.003
15logsource:
16 service: exchange
17 product: m365
18detection:
19 selection_rule:
20 Workload: 'Exchange'
21 Operation:
22 - 'New-InboxRule'
23 - 'Set-InboxRule'
24 selection_onechar:
25 RuleName|re: '^\w{1}$'
26 selection_susp_vals:
27 RuleName:
28 - '.'
29 - '..'
30 - 'aaaaa'
31 - '……'
32 - ';'
33 condition: selection_rule and (selection_onechar or selection_susp_vals)
34falsepositives:
35 - Unknown
36level: low```