Exchange ProxyShell Pattern

title: Exchange ProxyShell Pattern
id: 23eee45e-933b-49f9-ae1b-df706d2d52ef
status: test
description: Detects URL patterns that could be found in ProxyShell exploitation attempts against Exchange servers (failed and successful)
references:
    - https://youtu.be/5mqid-7zp8k?t=2231
    - https://blog.orange.tw/2021/08/proxylogon-a-new-attack-surface-on-ms-exchange-part-1.html
    - https://peterjson.medium.com/reproducing-the-proxyshell-pwn2own-exploit-49743a4ea9a1
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Rich Warren
date: 2021-08-07
modified: 2023-01-02
tags:
    - attack.initial-access
    - attack.t1190
    - detection.emerging-threats
logsource:
    category: webserver
detection:
    selection_1:
        sc-status: 401
    selection_1_auto:
        cs-uri-query|contains: '/autodiscover.json'
    selection_1_uri:
        cs-uri-query|contains:
            - '/powershell'
            - '/mapi/nspi'
            - '/EWS'
            - 'X-Rps-CAT'
    selection_poc:
        sc-status: 401
        cs-uri-query|contains:
            # since we don't know how it will appear in the log files, we'll just use all versions
            - 'autodiscover.json?@'
            - 'autodiscover.json%3f@'
            - '%3f@foo.com'
            - 'Email=autodiscover/autodiscover.json'
            - 'json?@foo.com'
    condition: all of selection_1* or selection_poc
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: high