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Active Rule

Potential COLDSTEEL Persistence Service DLL Load

Target Profile

Splunk

Splunk SPL & tstats data model queries

Format Mode

Default

Plain SPL queries

Conversion Output

Potential COLDSTEEL Persistence Service DLL Load

Using Splunk · Default · sigma-cli 2.0.2

Translation controls

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BackendSplunkFormatDefaultVersion2.0.2
title: Potential COLDSTEEL Persistence Service DLL Load
id: 1d7a57da-02e0-4f7f-92b1-c7b486ccfed5
status: test
description: |
    Detects a suspicious DLL load by an "svchost" process based on location and name that might be related to ColdSteel RAT. This DLL location and name has been seen used by ColdSteel as the service DLL for its persistence mechanism
references:
    - https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/static-assets/documents/malware-analysis-reports/cold-steel/NCSC-MAR-Cold-Steel.pdf
author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
date: 2023-05-02
tags:
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.defense-evasion
    - detection.emerging-threats
logsource:
    product: windows
    category: image_load
detection:
    selection:
        Image|endswith: '\svchost.exe'
        ImageLoaded|endswith: '\AppData\Roaming\newdev.dll'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unlikely
level: high

CLI command

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sigma convert --without-pipeline -t splunk -f default rules-emerging-threats/2023/Malware/COLDSTEEL/image_load_malware_coldsteel_persistence_service_dll.yml