Mailbox Export to Exchange Webserver

Detects a successful export of an Exchange mailbox to untypical directory or with aspx name suffix which can be used to place a webshell or the needed role assignment for it

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 1title: Mailbox Export to Exchange Webserver
 2id: 516376b4-05cd-4122-bae0-ad7641c38d48
 3status: test
 4description: Detects a successful export of an Exchange mailbox to untypical directory or with aspx name suffix which can be used to place a webshell or the needed role assignment for it
 5references:
 6    - https://blog.orange.tw/2021/08/proxylogon-a-new-attack-surface-on-ms-exchange-part-1.html
 7author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Rich Warren, Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems)
 8date: 2021/08/09
 9modified: 2023/04/30
10tags:
11    - attack.persistence
12    - attack.t1505.003
13logsource:
14    service: msexchange-management
15    product: windows
16detection:
17    export_command:
18        '|all':
19            - 'New-MailboxExportRequest'
20            - ' -Mailbox '
21    export_params:
22        - '-FilePath "\\\\' # We care about any share location.
23        - '.aspx'
24    role_assignment:
25        '|all':
26            - 'New-ManagementRoleAssignment'
27            - ' -Role "Mailbox Import Export"'
28            - ' -User '
29    condition: (export_command and export_params) or role_assignment
30falsepositives:
31    - Unlikely
32level: critical

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