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O365 Exchange Suspicious Mailbox Right Delegation

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O365 Exchange Suspicious Mailbox Right Delegation

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Identifies the assignment of rights to access content from another mailbox. An adversary may use the compromised account to send messages to other accounts in the network of the target organization while creating inbox rules, so messages can evade spam/phishing detection mechanisms.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-o365*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: None (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References: None

Tags:

Domain: Cloud
Data Source: Microsoft 365
Use Case: Configuration Audit
Tactic: Persistence

Version: 102

Rule authors:

Elastic
Austin Songer

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Rule query

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event.dataset:o365.audit and event.provider:Exchange and event.action:Add-MailboxPermission and
o365.audit.Parameters.AccessRights:(FullAccess or SendAs or SendOnBehalf) and event.outcome:success and
not user.id : "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM (Microsoft.Exchange.Servicehost)"

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
Technique:
- Name: Account Manipulation
- ID: T1098
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/
Sub-technique:
- Name: Additional Email Delegate Permissions
- ID: T1098.002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/002/

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