Detectionhighstable
Antivirus Hacktool Detection
Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports a hack tool or other attack tool. This event must not be ignored just because the AV has blocked the malware but investigate, how it came there in the first place.
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Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Arnim RuppCreated Mon Aug 16Updated Sat Nov 02fa0c05b6-8ad3-468d-8231-c1cbccb64fbacategory
Log Source
Antivirus Alert
CategoryAntivirus Alert← raw: antivirus
Detection Logic
Detection Logic1 selector
detection:
selection:
- Signature|startswith:
- 'ATK/' # Sophos
- 'Exploit.Script.CVE'
- 'HKTL'
- 'HTOOL'
- 'PWS.'
- 'PWSX'
- 'SecurityTool'
# - 'FRP.'
- Signature|contains:
- 'Adfind'
- 'Brutel'
- 'BruteR'
- 'Cobalt'
- 'COBEACON'
- 'Cometer'
- 'DumpCreds'
- 'FastReverseProxy'
- 'Hacktool'
- 'Havoc'
- 'Impacket'
- 'Keylogger'
- 'Koadic'
- 'Mimikatz'
- 'Nighthawk'
- 'PentestPowerShell'
- 'Potato'
- 'PowerSploit'
- 'PowerSSH'
- 'PshlSpy'
- 'PSWTool'
- 'PWCrack'
- 'PWDump'
- 'Rozena'
- 'Rusthound'
- 'Sbelt'
- 'Seatbelt'
- 'SecurityTool'
- 'SharpDump'
- 'SharpHound'
- 'Shellcode'
- 'Sliver'
- 'Snaffler'
- 'SOAPHound'
- 'Splinter'
- 'Swrort'
- 'TurtleLoader'
condition: selectionFalse Positives
Unlikely
False positives are unlikely for most environments. High confidence detection.
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Rule Metadata
Rule ID
fa0c05b6-8ad3-468d-8231-c1cbccb64fba
Status
stable
Level
high
Type
Detection
Created
Mon Aug 16
Modified
Sat Nov 02
Path
rules/category/antivirus/av_hacktool.yml
Raw Tags
attack.executionattack.t1204