Suspicious Loading of Dbgcore or Dbghelp DLLs from Uncommon Location

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects loading of dbgcore.dll or dbghelp.dll from uncommon locations such as user directories.

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Image Loaded" AND ( OBJECTNAME endswith "\dbgcore.dll,\dbghelp.dll" ) AND ( OBJECTNAME contains ":\Perflogs,:\Temp,:\Users\Public,$Recycle.Bin,\Contacts,\Documents,\Favorites,\Favourites" OR OBJECTNAME contains "\inetpub\wwwroot,\Music,\Pictures,\Start Menu\Programs\Startup,\Users\Default,\Videos,\AppData\Local\Temp" ) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.PRODUCT_NAME,Action1.OBJECTNAME,Action1.SIGNATURE,Action1.SIGNATURESTATUS

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

@Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)