Potential Goopdate.DLL Sideloading

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects potential DLL sideloading of "goopdate.dll", a DLL used by googleupdate.exe

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "sa_imageloaded" AND OBJECTNAME endswith "\goopdate.dll" AND OBJECTNAME notstartswith "C:\Program Files (x86)\,C:\Program Files" AND ((PROCESSNAME notcontains "\AppData\Local\Temp\GUM" OR PROCESSNAME notcontains ".tmp\Dropbox") OR (OBJECTNAME notcontains "\AppData\Local\Temp\GUM" OR OBJECTNAME notcontains ".tmp\goopdate.dll")) select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.PRODUCT_NAME,Action1.OBJECTNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

X__Junior (Nextron Systems), Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)