Potential KamiKakaBot Activity - Winlogon Shell Persistence

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects changes to the "Winlogon" registry key where a process will set the value of the "Shell" to a value that was observed being used by KamiKakaBot samples in order to achieve persistence.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Registry value modified" AND (OBJECTNAME endswith "\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell" OR (OBJECTNAME endswith "\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" AND OBJECTVALUENAME = "Shell")) AND (INFORMATION contains "-nop -w h" AND INFORMATION contains "$env" AND INFORMATION contains "explorer.exe" AND INFORMATION contains "Start-Process") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.OBJECTNAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.PREVVAL,Action1.CHANGES

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), X__Junior