title: Malicious Documents
description: The tests for this technique overlap heavily with T1566.001 Spearphishing
  Attachment due to similar download and macro detections, so here we're focusing
  on detecting Office applications launching processes.
author: keyboardcrunch
date: 10/10/2020
modified: null
mitre:
   tactic: Execution
   technique: T1204
   subtechnique: 002
operating_system: windows
query: (SrcProcParentName In Contains ("WINWORD.EXE","EXCEL.EXE") AND SrcProcName
  In Contains Anycase ("cmd.exe","cscript.exe","wscript.exe","certutil.exe","powershell.exe","msbuild.exe","csc.exe"))
  OR IndicatorName = "SuspiciousDocument"
false_positives: Legit docs with macros.
tags: null