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    Remcos RAT delivery via CVE-2017-0199 winword.exe spawning mshta.exe

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    GlassDiceBearhttps://www.dicebear.comhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Glass” (https://www.dicebear.com) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
    Ibrahim Saud@tektrix
    •updated Jun 30, 2026•0•0•5

    Detects the execution of child processes (mshta, cmd, powershell, wscript, cscript) spawned by Microsoft Word (winword.exe), which is a common post-exploitation pattern for Remcos RAT delivered via malicious RTF documents utilizing CVE-2017-0199 remote template injection.

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    Tags

    T1566.001 - Spearphishing AttachmentT1218.005 - MshtaS0332 - RemcosTA0001 - Initial AccessTA0005 - Defense EvasionProcess CreationCommand ExecutionMalware DetectedWindowsWindows SysmonCVE-2017-0199

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