Email content collected — T1114 Email Collection
Comparison unit: mailbox actor and operation stream.
Expected behavior: users read and export bounded message sets.
Deviation: unusual read volume, export operation, or actor-mailbox edge.
1200KM / detection
Detection workspace for T1114 Email Collection: 4 Sigma sources, 1 Atlas concepts and 1 anomaly models. No live detection validation.
COUNT(message_read_or_export BY actor, 10m) >= threshold OR MATCH(mailbox_export_operation) -> ALERTComparison unit: mailbox actor and operation stream.
Expected behavior: users read and export bounded message sets.
Deviation: unusual read volume, export operation, or actor-mailbox edge.
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.
Detects file access to mbox/maildir files in conjunction with curl/wget/postfix execution, or anomalous shell scripts harvesting user mail directories.
Monitors Mail.app database or maildir file access, automation via AppleScript, and abnormal mail rule creation using scripting or UI automation frameworks.
Correlates unusual auto-forwarding rule creation via Exchange Web Services or Outlook rules engine, presence of X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AutoForwarded headers, and logon session anomalies from abnormal IPs.
No reviewed association in this snapshot.
These are explicit actor-to-technique associations in the existing Threat Matrix snapshot, not attribution of an event or proof that a detector identifies the actor. No tool-to-actor relationship is inferred.
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