MS Office & Acrobat Reader Monitoring

July 19, 2024

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The ESA Threat Detection rules for monitoring Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Reader are vast limits vendor rules.

Microsoft Office Rules

The rules in this section detect suspicious behavior with MS Office applications.

Detect macro execution with the default Office security configuration applied ("disable all macros with notification")
Detect child processes of Microsoft Office applications (dedicated rules for scripts and other types of child processes)
Detect Microsoft Office download operations
Detect Microsoft Office applications executing macros that access WMI to create child processes
Suspicious DLL load by Office
Detect loading of MAPI DLLs from processes other than Outlook

Adobe Acrobat Reader Rules

The rules in this section detect suspicious behavior with Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Detect child processes of Adobe Reader

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MS Office & Acrobat Reader Monitoring

July 19, 2024

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July 19, 2024

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MS Office & Acrobat Reader Monitoring

Microsoft Office Rules

Adobe Acrobat Reader Rules

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