Potential DLL Sideloading Using Coregen.exe

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detect usage of the "coregen.exe" (Microsoft CoreCLR Native Image Generator) binary to sideload arbitrary DLLs.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "sa_imageloaded" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\coregen.exe" AND OBJECTNAME notstartswith "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Silverlight\,C:\Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\,C:\Windows\System32\,C:\Windows\SysWOW64" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.PRODUCT_NAME,Action1.OBJECTNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

frack113