COLDSTEEL Persistence Service Creation

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects the creation of new services potentially related to COLDSTEEL RAT

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Service Operation" AND SOURCE = "Service Control Manager" AND SERVICENAME = "Name,msupdate,msupdate2" AND OBJECTNAME contains "\Windows\System32\svchost.exe" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.ERRORCODE,Action1.SERVICENAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)