Potentially Suspicious Usage Of Qemu
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About the rule
Rule Type
Standard
Rule Description
Detects potentially suspicious execution of the Qemu utility in a Windows environment. Threat actors have leveraged this utility and this technique for achieving network access as reported by Kaspersky.
Severity
Trouble
Rule Requirement
Criteria
Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND (COMMANDLINE contains "-m 1M,-m 2M,-m 3M" AND (COMMANDLINE contains "restrict=off" AND COMMANDLINE contains "-netdev " AND COMMANDLINE contains "connect=" AND COMMANDLINE contains "-nographic")) AND COMMANDLINE notcontains " -cdrom , type=virt , -blockdev " select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME
Detection
Execution Mode
realtime
Log Sources
Windows
Author
Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf), Hunter Juhan (@threatHNTR)
