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[metadata]
creation_date = "2021/03/04"
maturity = "production"
updated_date = "2021/03/08"
[rule]
author = ["Elastic", "Austin Songer"]
description = """
Identifies suspicious files being written by the Microsoft Exchange Server Unified Messaging (UM) service. This activity
has been observed exploiting CVE-2021-26858.
"""
false_positives = [
"""
Files generated during installation will generate a lot of noise, so the rule should only be enabled after the fact.
""",
]
from = "now-9m"
index = ["winlogbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*", "logs-windows.*"]
language = "eql"
license = "Elastic License v2"
name = "Microsoft Exchange Server UM Writing Suspicious Files"
references = [
"https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/03/02/hafnium-targeting-exchange-servers",
"https://www.volexity.com/blog/2021/03/02/active-exploitation-of-microsoft-exchange-zero-day-vulnerabilities",
]
risk_score = 47
rule_id = "6cd1779c-560f-4b68-a8f1-11009b27fe63"
severity = "medium"
tags = ["Elastic", "Host", "Windows", "Threat Detection", "Initial Access"]
timestamp_override = "event.ingested"
type = "eql"
query = '''
file where event.type == "creation" and
process.parent.name : ("UMWorkerProcess.exe", "umservice.exe") and
file.extension : ("php", "jsp", "js", "aspx", "asmx", "asax", "cfm", "shtml") and
(
file.path : ("C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\aspnet_client\\*",
"C:\\*\\FrontEnd\\HttpProxy\\owa\\auth\\*") or
(file.path : "C:\\*\\FrontEnd\\HttpProxy\\ecp\\auth\\*" and not file.name : "TimeoutLogoff.aspx")
)
'''
[[rule.threat]]
framework = "MITRE ATT&CK"
[[rule.threat.technique]]
id = "T1190"
name = "Exploit Public-Facing Application"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1190/"
[rule.threat.tactic]
id = "TA0001"
name = "Initial Access"
reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0001/"