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Version: 2.1.0

ORCA.189 - Safe Attachments is not bypassed.

Overview

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Safe Attachments assists scanning for zero day malware by using behavioural analysis and sandboxing, supplementing signature definitions. The protection can be bypassed using mail flow rules which set the X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SkipSafeAttachmentProcessing header for email messages.

Remediation action

Remove mail flow rules which bypass Safe Attachments.

Test Metadata

FieldValue
Test IDORCA.189
SeverityMedium
SuiteORCA
CategoryEXO
PowerShell testTest-ORCA189
TagsEXO, ORCA, ORCA.189

Source

  • Pester test: tests/orca/Test-ORCA189.Tests.ps1
  • PowerShell source: powershell/public/orca/Test-ORCA189.ps1