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Active Rule
Potential Mfdetours.DLL Sideloading
Target Profile
Splunk
Splunk SPL & tstats data model queries
Format Mode
Default
Plain SPL queries
Conversion Output
Potential Mfdetours.DLL Sideloading
Using Splunk · Default · sigma-cli 2.0.2
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BackendSplunkFormatDefaultVersion2.0.2
title: Potential Mfdetours.DLL Sideloading
id: d2605a99-2218-4894-8fd3-2afb7946514d
status: test
description: Detects potential DLL sideloading of "mfdetours.dll". While using "mftrace.exe" it can be abused to attach to an arbitrary process and force load any DLL named "mfdetours.dll" from the current directory of execution.
references:
- Internal Research
author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
date: 2023-08-03
tags:
- attack.persistence
- attack.defense-evasion
- attack.privilege-escalation
- attack.t1574.001
logsource:
category: image_load
product: windows
detection:
selection:
ImageLoaded|endswith: '\mfdetours.dll'
filter_main_legit_path:
ImageLoaded|contains: ':\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\'
condition: selection and not 1 of filter_main_*
falsepositives:
- Unlikely
level: medium
CLI command
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sigma convert --without-pipeline -t splunk -f default rules/windows/image_load/image_load_side_load_mfdetours.yml