COLDSTEEL RAT Service Persistence Execution

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects the creation of an "svchost" process with specific command line flags, that were seen present and used by ColdSteel RAT

Severity

Critical

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\svchost.exe" AND COMMANDLINE endswith " -k msupdate, -k msupdate2, -k alg" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

X__Junior (Nextron Systems)