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Email Collection

CollectionWindows, macOS, Linux, Office Suite

Where this stands

One published detection covers this technique. Every one is unverified — no rule on Siemphony has been executed against real telemetry.

What the technique is

Adversaries may target user email to collect sensitive information. Emails may contain sensitive data, including trade secrets or personal information, that can prove valuable to adversaries. Emails may also contain details of ongoing incident response operations, which may allow adversaries to adjust their techniques in order to maintain persistence or evade defenses. Adversaries can collect or forward email from mail servers or clients.

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What MITRE says you would watch

  • AN1309

    Correlates creation of email forwarding rules or header anomalies (e.g., X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AutoForwarded) with suspicious process execution, file access of.pst/.ost files, and network connections to external SMTP servers.

  • AN1310

    Detects file access to mbox/maildir files in conjunction with curl/wget/postfix execution, or anomalous shell scripts harvesting user mail directories.

  • AN1311

    Monitors Mail.app database or maildir file access, automation via AppleScript, and abnormal mail rule creation using scripting or UI automation frameworks.

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