Malicious Windows Script Components File Execution by TAEF Detection

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Applies to: Log360Log360 Cloud

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,Action1.DOMAIN,Action1.ORIGINALFILENAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSID,Action1.PROCESSID,Action1.PRODUCT_NAME,Action1.SECURITYID

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Agro (@agro_sev) oscd.community