Malicious Windows Script Components File Execution by TAEF Detection

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Windows Test Authoring and Execution Framework (TAEF) framework allows you to run automation by executing tests files written on different languages (C, C#, Microsoft COM Scripting interfaces Adversaries may execute malicious code (such as WSC file with VBScript, dll and so on) directly by running te.exe

Severity

Attention

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\te.exe" OR PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "\te.exe" OR ORIGINALFILENAME = "\te.exe" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Agro (@agro_sev) oscd.community