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Suspicious macOS MS Office Child Process

This rule identifies suspicious child processes of Microsoft Office applications on macOS, which often result from exploitation or malicious macros, by detecting unexpected processes like curl, bash, osascript, and python spawned by Office apps, while filtering out false positives related to product version discovery, error reporting, and legitimate software.

Microsoft Word +7 endpoint macos initial_access microsoft_office
2r 6t
medium advisory

Suspicious Execution via Microsoft Office Add-Ins

This rule identifies suspicious execution patterns where Microsoft Office applications launch add-ins from unusual paths or with atypical parent processes, potentially indicating initial access via a malicious phishing MS Office Add-In.

Microsoft Word +3 office-addins initial-access phishing
3r 4t
medium advisory

Suspicious MS Office Child Process

Detects suspicious child processes of Microsoft Office applications, indicating potential exploitation or malicious macros for initial access, defense evasion, and execution.

Microsoft Office +4 initial-access defense-evasion execution discovery windows
2r 18t