Suspicious Rundll32 Setupapi.dll Activity

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

setupapi.dll library provide InstallHinfSection function for processing INF files. INF file may contain instructions allowing to create values in the registry, modify files and install drivers. This technique could be used to obtain persistence via modifying one of Run or RunOnce registry keys, run process or use other DLLs chain calls (see references) InstallHinfSection function in setupapi.dll calls runonce.exe executable regardless of actual content of INF file.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\runonce.exe" AND PARENTPROCESSNAME endswith "\rundll32.exe" AND (PARENTPROCESSCOMMANDLINE contains "setupapi.dll" AND PARENTPROCESSCOMMANDLINE contains "InstallHinfSection") select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Konstantin Grishchenko, oscd.community