KQL Search

//Detections based on the emerging information found here - https://twitter.com/nao_sec/status/1530196847679401984, https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1531018365606707206 and https://doublepulsar.com/follina-a-microsoft-office-code-execution-vulnerability-1a47fce5629e
//Microsoft Sentinel queries
//Search your device process events for msdt.exe being generated by Outlook, Word or Excel - should be low noise and high value alerts, seems very rare behaviour
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "msdt.exe" and InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_any ("outlook.exe", "winword.exe", "excel.exe") 

//Search your device process events for msdt.exe spawning processes other than itself
DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "msdt.exe" and ProcessCommandLine !contains "msdt.exe"

//Likely to get false positives with msdt.exe spawning a process other than itself, so instead look for new events seen today for the first time based on distinct process and parent process
DeviceProcessEvents
| where TimeGenerated > ago (30d) and TimeGenerated < ago(1d)
| project InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "msdt.exe" and ProcessCommandLine !contains "msdt.exe"
| distinct InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine
| join kind=rightanti 
    (
    DeviceProcessEvents
    | where TimeGenerated > ago (1d)
    | where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "msdt.exe" and ProcessCommandLine !contains "msdt.exe"
    )
 on InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine
 | project TimeGenerated, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine

//Look for new public connections from "sdiagnhost.exe" or "msdt.exe" as per https://twitter.com/MalwareJake/status/1531088843792957442
//"sdiagnhost.exe" legimitately connects to some internet endpoints as part of Microsoft telemetry so find events new to today to investigate
let knownips=
    DeviceNetworkEvents
    | where TimeGenerated > ago(30d) and TimeGenerated < ago(1d)
    | where InitiatingProcessFileName has_any ("sdiagnhost.exe", "msdt.exe")
    | where RemoteIPType == "Public"
    | distinct RemoteIP;
DeviceNetworkEvents
| where TimeGenerated > ago(1d)
| where InitiatingProcessFileName has_any ("sdiagnhost.exe", "msdt.exe")
| where RemoteIPType == "Public"
| where RemoteIP !in (knownips)
| project
    TimeGenerated,
    ActionType,
    DeviceName,
    InitiatingProcessAccountName,
    InitiatingProcessFileName,
    InitiatingProcessCommandLine,
    LocalIP,
    RemoteIP,
    RemotePort,
    RemoteUrl



//Advanced Hunting queries
//Search your device process events for msdt.exe being generated by Outlook, Word or Excel - should be low noise and high value alerts, seems very rare behaviour
DeviceProcessEvents
| where ProcessCommandLine contains "msdt.exe" and InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_any ("outlook.exe", "winword.exe", "excel.exe") 

//Search your device process events for msdt.exe spawning processes other than itself
DeviceProcessEvents
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "msdt.exe" and ProcessCommandLine !contains "msdt.exe"

//Likely to get false positives with msdt.exe spawning a process other than itself, so instead look for new events seen today for the first time based on distinct process and parent process
DeviceProcessEvents
| where Timestamp > ago (30d) and Timestamp < ago(1d)
| project InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "msdt.exe" and ProcessCommandLine !contains "msdt.exe"
| distinct InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine
| join kind=rightanti 
    (
    DeviceProcessEvents
    | where Timestamp > ago (1d)
    | where InitiatingProcessCommandLine contains "msdt.exe" and ProcessCommandLine !contains "msdt.exe"
    )
 on InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine
 | project Timestamp, DeviceName, InitiatingProcessAccountName, InitiatingProcessCommandLine, ProcessCommandLine

//Look for new public connections from "sdiagnhost.exe" or "msdt.exe" as per https://twitter.com/MalwareJake/status/1531088843792957442
//"sdiagnhost.exe" legimitately connects to some internet endpoints as part of Microsoft telemetry so find events new to today to investigate
let knownips=
    DeviceNetworkEvents
    | where Timestamp > ago(30d) and Timestamp < ago(1d)
    | where InitiatingProcessFileName has_any ("sdiagnhost.exe", "msdt.exe")
    | where RemoteIPType == "Public"
    | distinct RemoteIP;
DeviceNetworkEvents
| where Timestamp > ago(1d)
| where InitiatingProcessFileName has_any ("sdiagnhost.exe", "msdt.exe")
| where RemoteIPType == "Public"
| where RemoteIP !in (knownips)
| where RemoteUrl !endswith ".visualstudio.com" and RemoteUrl !endswith ".microsoft.com"
| project
    Timestamp,
    ActionType,
    DeviceName,
    InitiatingProcessAccountName,
    InitiatingProcessFileName,
    InitiatingProcessCommandLine,
    LocalIP,
    RemoteIP,
    RemotePort,
    RemoteUrl