Mshta Descendant of Microsoft Office

Identifies the execution of mshta.exe as a descendant of a Microsoft Office process.

id:d49fc9fe-df80-416d-a861-0be02bef0df5
categories:detect
confidence:medium
os:windows
created:12/04/2019
updated:12/04/2019

MITRE ATT&CK™ Mapping

tactics:Execution, Defense Evasion, Command and Control
techniques:T1170 Mshta

Query

process where subtype.create and process_name == "mshta.exe"
  and descendant of
    [process where process_name in ("outlook.exe", "winword.exe", "excel.exe", "powerpnt.exe")]

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