Rule Library

Sigma Rules

1,709 rules found

3,731Total
3,132Detection
457Emerging
139Hunting
Detectionhighexperimental

New RUN Key Pointing to Suspicious Folder

Detects suspicious new RUN key element pointing to an executable in a suspicious folder

WindowsRegistry Set
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)+3Sat Aug 25windows
Detectionhighexperimental

Suspicious Space Characters in TypedPaths Registry Path - FileFix

Detects the occurrence of numerous space characters in TypedPaths registry paths, which may indicate execution via phishing lures using file-fix techniques to hide malicious commands.

WindowsRegistry Set
Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)Tue Nov 04windows
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Modify User Shell Folders Startup Value

Detect modification of the User Shell Folders registry values for Startup or Common Startup which could indicate persistence attempts. Attackers may modify User Shell Folders registry keys to point to malicious executables or scripts that will be executed during startup. This technique is often used to maintain persistence on a compromised system by ensuring that the malicious payload is executed automatically.

WindowsRegistry Set
François Hubaut+1Sat Oct 01windows
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Enable LM Hash Storage

Detects changes to the "NoLMHash" registry value in order to allow Windows to store LM Hashes. By setting this registry value to "0" (DWORD), Windows will be allowed to store a LAN manager hash of your password in Active Directory and local SAM databases.

WindowsRegistry Set
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Fri Dec 15windows
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Scheduled TaskCache Change by Uncommon Program

Monitor the creation of a new key under 'TaskCache' when a new scheduled task is registered by a process that is not svchost.exe, which is suspicious

WindowsRegistry Set
Syed HasanFri Jun 18windows
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Potential Registry Persistence Attempt Via Windows Telemetry

Detects potential persistence behavior using the windows telemetry registry key. Windows telemetry makes use of the binary CompatTelRunner.exe to run a variety of commands and perform the actual telemetry collections. This binary was created to be easily extensible, and to that end, it relies on the registry to instruct on which commands to run. The problem is, it will run any arbitrary command without restriction of location or type.

WindowsRegistry Set
Lednyov Alexey+2Fri Oct 16windows
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RDP Sensitive Settings Changed

Detects tampering of RDP Terminal Service/Server sensitive settings. Such as allowing unauthorized users access to a system via the 'fAllowUnsolicited' or enabling RDP via 'fDenyTSConnections', etc. Below is a list of registry keys/values that are monitored by this rule: - Shadow: Used to enable Remote Desktop shadowing, which allows an administrator to view or control a user's session. - DisableRemoteDesktopAntiAlias: Disables anti-aliasing for remote desktop sessions. - DisableSecuritySettings: Disables certain security settings for Remote Desktop connections. - fAllowUnsolicited: Allows unsolicited remote assistance offers. - fAllowUnsolicitedFullControl: Allows unsolicited remote assistance offers with full control. - InitialProgram: Specifies a program to run automatically when a user logs on to a remote computer. - ServiceDll: Used in RDP hijacking techniques to specify a custom DLL to be loaded by the Terminal Services service. - SecurityLayer: Specifies the security layer used for RDP connections.

WindowsRegistry Set
Samir Bousseaden+3Sat Aug 06windows
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New TimeProviders Registered With Uncommon DLL Name

Detects processes setting a new DLL in DllName in under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProvider. Adversaries may abuse time providers to execute DLLs when the system boots. The Windows Time service (W32Time) enables time synchronization across and within domains.

WindowsRegistry Set
François HubautSun Jun 19windows
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Potential Signing Bypass Via Windows Developer Features - Registry

Detects when the enablement of developer features such as "Developer Mode" or "Application Sideloading". Which allows the user to install untrusted packages.

WindowsRegistry Set
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Thu Jan 12windows
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UAC Bypass via Event Viewer

Detects UAC bypass method using Windows event viewer

WindowsRegistry Set
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Sun Mar 19windows
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UAC Bypass via Sdclt

Detects the pattern of UAC Bypass using registry key manipulation of sdclt.exe (e.g. UACMe 53)

WindowsRegistry Set
Omer Yampel+1Fri Mar 17windows
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UAC Bypass Abusing Winsat Path Parsing - Registry

Detects the pattern of UAC Bypass using a path parsing issue in winsat.exe (UACMe 52)

WindowsRegistry Set
Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems)Mon Aug 30windows
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UAC Bypass Using Windows Media Player - Registry

Detects the pattern of UAC Bypass using Windows Media Player osksupport.dll (UACMe 32)

WindowsRegistry Set
Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems)Mon Aug 23windows
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VBScript Payload Stored in Registry

Detects VBScript content stored into registry keys as seen being used by UNC2452 group

WindowsRegistry Set
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Fri Mar 05windows
Detectionhighexperimental

Windows Vulnerable Driver Blocklist Disabled

Detects when the Windows Vulnerable Driver Blocklist is set to disabled. This setting is crucial for preventing the loading of known vulnerable drivers, and its modification may indicate an attempt to bypass security controls. It is often targeted by threat actors to facilitate the installation of malicious or vulnerable drivers, particularly in scenarios involving Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) bypass techniques. This rule applies to systems that support the Vulnerable Driver Blocklist feature, including Windows 10 version 1903 and later, and Windows Server 2022 and later. Note that this change will require a reboot to take effect, and this rule only detects the registry modification action.

WindowsRegistry Set
Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)Mon Jan 26windows
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Execution DLL of Choice Using WAB.EXE

This rule detects that the path to the DLL written in the registry is different from the default one. Launched WAB.exe tries to load the DLL from Registry.

WindowsRegistry Set
oscd.community+1Tue Oct 13windows
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Wdigest Enable UseLogonCredential

Detects potential malicious modification of the property value of UseLogonCredential from HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\WDigest to enable clear-text credentials

WindowsRegistry Set
Roberto Rodriguez (Cyb3rWard0g)+1Thu Sep 12windows
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Disable Windows Defender Functionalities Via Registry Keys

Detects when attackers or tools disable Windows Defender functionalities via the Windows registry

WindowsRegistry Set
AlertIQ+4Mon Aug 01windows
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Winlogon Notify Key Logon Persistence

Adversaries may abuse features of Winlogon to execute DLLs and/or executables when a user logs in. Winlogon.exe is a Windows component responsible for actions at logon/logoff as well as the secure attention sequence (SAS) triggered by Ctrl-Alt-Delete.

WindowsRegistry Set
François HubautThu Dec 30windows
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Sysmon Configuration Error

Detects when an adversary is trying to hide it's action from Sysmon logging based on error messages

Windowssysmon_error
François HubautFri Jun 04windows
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Sysmon Configuration Modification

Detects when an attacker tries to hide from Sysmon by disabling or stopping it

Windowssysmon_status
François HubautFri Jun 04windows
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Sysmon Blocked Executable

Triggers on any Sysmon "FileBlockExecutable" event, which indicates a violation of the configured block policy

Windowssysmon
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Tue Aug 16windows
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Sysmon Blocked File Shredding

Triggers on any Sysmon "FileBlockShredding" event, which indicates a violation of the configured shredding policy.

Windowssysmon
François HubautThu Jul 20windows
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Suspicious Encoded Scripts in a WMI Consumer

Detects suspicious encoded payloads in WMI Event Consumers

WindowsWMI Event
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Wed Sep 01windows
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Suspicious Scripting in a WMI Consumer

Detects suspicious commands that are related to scripting/powershell in WMI Event Consumers

WindowsWMI Event
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)+1Mon Apr 15windows
Emerging Threathightest

Rejetto HTTP File Server RCE

Detects attempts to exploit a Rejetto HTTP File Server (HFS) via CVE-2014-6287

Web Server Log
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Tue Jul 192014
Emerging Threathightest

Adwind RAT / JRAT

Detects javaw.exe in AppData folder as used by Adwind / JRAT

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)+3Fri Nov 102017
Emerging Threathightest

Fireball Archer Install

Detects Archer malware invocation via rundll32

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Sat Jun 032017
Emerging Threathightest

Malware Shellcode in Verclsid Target Process

Detects a process access to verclsid.exe that injects shellcode from a Microsoft Office application / VBA macro

WindowsProcess Access
John Lambert (tech)+1Sat Mar 042017
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Potential PlugX Activity

Detects the execution of an executable that is typically used by PlugX for DLL side loading starting from an uncommon location

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Mon Jun 122017
Emerging Threathightest

StoneDrill Service Install

This method detects a service install of the malicious Microsoft Network Realtime Inspection Service service described in StoneDrill report by Kaspersky

Windowssystem
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Tue Mar 072017
Emerging Threathightest

Potential APT10 Cloud Hopper Activity

Detects potential process and execution activity related to APT10 Cloud Hopper operation

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Fri Apr 072017
Emerging Threathightest

Ps.exe Renamed SysInternals Tool

Detects renamed SysInternals tool execution with a binary named ps.exe as used by Dragonfly APT group and documented in TA17-293A report

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Sun Oct 222017
Emerging Threathightest

Equation Group C2 Communication

Detects communication to C2 servers mentioned in the operational notes of the ShadowBroker leak of EquationGroup C2 tools

Firewall
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Sat Apr 152017
Emerging Threathightest

Lazarus System Binary Masquerading

Detects binaries used by the Lazarus group which use system names but are executed and launched from non-default location

WindowsProcess Creation
Trent Liffick+1Wed Jun 032017
Emerging Threathightest

Turla Service Install

This method detects a service install of malicious services mentioned in Carbon Paper - Turla report by ESET

Windowssystem
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Fri Mar 312017
Emerging Threathightest

Sofacy Trojan Loader Activity

Detects Trojan loader activity as used by APT28

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)+2Thu Mar 012018
Emerging Threathightest

Potential MuddyWater APT Activity

Detects potential Muddywater APT activity

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Fri Mar 102018
Emerging Threathighstable

TropicTrooper Campaign November 2018

Detects TropicTrooper activity, an actor who targeted high-profile organizations in the energy and food and beverage sectors in Asia

WindowsProcess Creation
@41thexplorer+1Tue Nov 122018
Emerging Threathightest

Potential BearLPE Exploitation

Detects potential exploitation of the BearLPE exploit using Task Scheduler ".job" import arbitrary DACL write\par

WindowsProcess Creation
Olaf HartongWed May 222019
Emerging Threathightest

Scanner PoC for CVE-2019-0708 RDP RCE Vuln

Detects the use of a scanner by zerosum0x0 that discovers targets vulnerable to CVE-2019-0708 RDP RCE aka BlueKeep

Windowssecurity
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)+1Sun Jun 022019
Emerging Threathightest

Exploiting SetupComplete.cmd CVE-2019-1378

Detects exploitation attempt of privilege escalation vulnerability via SetupComplete.cmd and PartnerSetupComplete.cmd described in CVE-2019-1378

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)+2Fri Nov 152019
Emerging Threathightest

Sudo Privilege Escalation CVE-2019-14287

Detects users trying to exploit sudo vulnerability reported in CVE-2019-14287

LinuxProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Tue Oct 152019
Emerging Threathightest

Potential Baby Shark Malware Activity

Detects activity that could be related to Baby Shark malware

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Sun Feb 242019
Emerging Threathightest

Chafer Malware URL Pattern

Detects HTTP request used by Chafer malware to receive data from its C2.

Proxy Log
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Thu Jan 312019
Emerging Threathighstable

Potential Emotet Activity

Detects all Emotet like process executions that are not covered by the more generic rules

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Mon Sep 302019
Emerging Threathightest

Formbook Process Creation

Detects Formbook like process executions that inject code into a set of files in the System32 folder, which executes a special command command line to delete the dropper from the AppData Temp folder. We avoid false positives by excluding all parent process with command line parameters.

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)+2Mon Sep 302019
Emerging Threathighstable

Potential Ryuk Ransomware Activity

Detects Ryuk ransomware activity

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)+2Mon Dec 162019