Suspicious Program Names

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects suspicious patterns in program names or folders that are often found in malicious samples or hacktools

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (PROCESSNAME contains "\CVE-202,\CVE202" OR PROCESSNAME endswith "\poc.exe,\artifact.exe,\artifact64.exe,\artifact_protected.exe,\artifact32.exe,\artifact32big.exe,obfuscated.exe,obfusc.exe,\meterpreter") OR (COMMANDLINE contains "inject.ps1,Invoke-CVE,pupy.ps1,payload.ps1,beacon.ps1,PowerView.ps1,bypass.ps1,obfuscated.ps1,obfusc.ps1,obfus.ps1,obfs.ps1,evil.ps1,MiniDogz.ps1,_enc.ps1,\shell.ps1" OR COMMANDLINE contains "\rshell.ps1,revshell.ps1,\av.ps1,\av_test.ps1,adrecon.ps1,mimikatz.ps1,\PowerUp_,powerup.ps1,\Temp\a.ps1,\Temp\p.ps1,\Temp\1.ps1,Hound.ps1,encode.ps1,powercat.ps1") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)