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Indexed Rules

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17

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CLI Versions

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Newest: 2.0.2

Translation Workspace

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Active Rule

Suspicious Executable File Creation

Target Profile

Splunk

Splunk SPL & tstats data model queries

Format Mode

Default

Plain SPL queries

Conversion Output

Suspicious Executable File Creation

Using Splunk · Default · sigma-cli 2.0.2

Translation controls

Adjust the rule on the left, then regenerate when you want a fresh backend-native query.

BackendSplunkFormatDefaultVersion2.0.2
title: Suspicious Executable File Creation
id: 74babdd6-a758-4549-9632-26535279e654
status: test
description: |
    Detect creation of suspicious executable file names.
    Some strings look for suspicious file extensions, others look for filenames that exploit unquoted service paths.
references:
    - https://medium.com/@SumitVerma101/windows-privilege-escalation-part-1-unquoted-service-path-c7a011a8d8ae
    - https://app.any.run/tasks/76c69e2d-01e8-49d9-9aea-fb7cc0c4d3ad/
author: frack113
date: 2022-09-05
modified: 2023-12-11
tags:
    - attack.defense-evasion
    - attack.t1564
logsource:
    product: windows
    category: file_event
detection:
    selection:
        TargetFilename|endswith:
            - ':\$Recycle.Bin.exe'
            - ':\Documents and Settings.exe'
            - ':\MSOCache.exe'
            - ':\PerfLogs.exe'
            - ':\Recovery.exe'
            - '.bat.exe'
            - '.sys.exe'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: high

CLI command

Copy the exact command to reproduce this translation locally.

sigma convert --without-pipeline -t splunk -f default rules/windows/file/file_event/file_event_win_susp_executable_creation.yml