Potentially Suspicious Office Document Executed From Trusted Location (via process_creation)

This rule detects the execution of an Office application that points to a document that is located in a trusted location. Adversaries frequently used this to avoid macro security and execute their hostile code.

SigmahighWindowsv1
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Known false positives

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