QuestionQ29

VerifiedDetection Analysis

An alert is received for the following process tree:

Outlook.exe → iexplore.exe → Winword.exe → cmd.exe → PowerShell.exe

What occurred based on the information provided?

Explanation

This process chain is characteristic of email-delivered malware: Outlook opens a link in Internet Explorer, the link leads to a Word document, and a malicious macro in that document launches cmd.exe and PowerShell to execute payload activity.

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