Suspicious Driver Install by pnputil.exe

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About the rule

Rule Type

Standard

Rule Description

Detects when a possible suspicious driver is being installed via pnputil.exe lolbin

Severity

Trouble

Rule Requirement

Criteria

Action1: actionname = "Process started" AND COMMANDLINE contains "-i,/install,-a,/add-driver,.inf" AND PROCESSNAME endswith "\pnputil.exe" select Action1.HOSTNAME,Action1.MESSAGE,Action1.COMMANDLINE,Action1.FILE_NAME,Action1.PROCESSNAME,Action1.USERNAME,Action1.PARENTPROCESSNAME

Detection

Execution Mode

realtime

Log Sources

Windows

Author

Hai Vaknin @LuxNoBulIshit, Avihay eldad @aloneliassaf, Austin Songer @austinsonger