Microsoft Build Engine Started by an Office Application

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Microsoft Build Engine Started by an Office Application

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An instance of MSBuild, the Microsoft Build Engine, was started by Excel or Word. This is unusual behavior for the Build Engine and could have been caused by an Excel or Word document executing a malicious script payload.

Rule type: eql

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*
  • logs-endpoint.events.*
  • logs-windows.*

Severity: high

Risk score: 73

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Host
  • Windows
  • Threat Detection
  • Defense Evasion

Version: 9

Rule authors:

  • Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Rule query

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process where event.type in ("start", "process_started") and
  process.name : "MSBuild.exe" and
  process.parent.name : ("eqnedt32.exe",
                         "excel.exe",
                         "fltldr.exe",
                         "msaccess.exe",
                         "mspub.exe",
                         "outlook.exe",
                         "powerpnt.exe",
                         "winword.exe" )

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM