Potential APT Mustang Panda Activity Against Australian Gov

Last updated on:

About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects specific command line execution used by Mustang Panda in a targeted attack against the Australian government as reported by Lab52

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (COMMANDLINE contains "copy SolidPDFCreator.dll" AND COMMANDLINE contains "C:\Users\Public\Libraries\PhotoTvRHD\SolidPDFCreator.dll") OR (COMMANDLINE contains "reg " AND COMMANDLINE contains "\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" AND COMMANDLINE contains "SolidPDF" AND COMMANDLINE contains "C:\Users\Public\Libraries\PhotoTvRHD") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)