Suspicious File Created in Outlook Temporary Directory (via file_event)
This rule detects the creation of files with anomalous file extensions in the temporary directory that Outlook uses when opening attachments. This can be leveraged to detect spear-phishing campaigns that use anomalous files as attachments, which may contain hostile code.
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