Powershell Detect Virtualization Environment

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Adversaries may employ various system checks to detect and avoid virtualization and analysis environments. This may include changing behaviors based on the results of checks for the presence of artifacts indicative of a virtual machine environment (VME) or sandbox

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "PowerShell Script Block Logged" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "Get-WmiObject,gwmi" AND SCRIPTEXECUTED contains "MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature,Win32_ComputerSystem" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.SCRIPTEXECUTED

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

frack113, Duc.Le-GTSC