Rule Library

Sigma Rules

3,132 rules found for "sigma"

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

Insecure Transfer Via Curl.EXE

Detects execution of "curl.exe" with the "--insecure" flag.

WindowsProcess Creation
X__Junior (Nextron Systems)Fri Jun 30windows
Detectionmediumtest

Insecure Proxy/DOH Transfer Via Curl.EXE

Detects execution of "curl.exe" with the "insecure" flag over proxy or DOH.

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Thu Jul 27windows
Detectionmediumtest

Local File Read Using Curl.EXE

Detects execution of "curl.exe" with the "file://" protocol handler in order to read local files.

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Thu Jul 27windows
Detectionhightest

Suspicious Curl.EXE Download

Detects a suspicious curl process start on Windows and outputs the requested document to a local file

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)+1Fri Jul 03windows
Detectionhightest

Suspicious CustomShellHost Execution

Detects the execution of CustomShellHost.exe where the child isn't located in 'C:\Windows\explorer.exe'. CustomShellHost is a known LOLBin that can be abused by attackers for defense evasion techniques.

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Fri Aug 19windows
Detectionhightest

ManageEngine Endpoint Central Dctask64.EXE Potential Abuse

Detects the execution of "dctask64.exe", a signed binary by ZOHO Corporation part of ManageEngine Endpoint Central. This binary can be abused for DLL injection, arbitrary command and process execution.

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)+1Tue Jan 28windows
Detectionmediumtest

Uncommon Child Process Of Defaultpack.EXE

Detects uncommon child processes of "DefaultPack.EXE" binary as a proxy to launch other programs

WindowsProcess Creation
François HubautSat Dec 31windows
Detectionhighexperimental

PowerShell Defender Threat Severity Default Action Set to 'Allow' or 'NoAction'

Detects the use of PowerShell to execute the 'Set-MpPreference' cmdlet to configure Windows Defender's threat severity default action to 'Allow' (value '6') or 'NoAction' (value '9'). This is a highly suspicious configuration change that effectively disables Defender's ability to automatically mitigate threats of a certain severity level. An attacker might use this technique via the command line to bypass defenses before executing payloads.

WindowsProcess Creation
Matt Anderson (Huntress)Fri Jul 11windows
Detectionhighexperimental

Windows Defender Context Menu Removed

Detects the use of reg.exe or PowerShell to delete the Windows Defender context menu handler registry keys. This action removes the "Scan with Microsoft Defender" option from the right-click menu for files, directories, and drives. Attackers may use this technique to hinder manual, on-demand scans and reduce the visibility of the security product.

WindowsProcess Creation
Matt Anderson (Huntress)Wed Jul 09windows
Detectionmediumtest

Remote File Download Via Desktopimgdownldr Utility

Detects the desktopimgdownldr utility being used to download a remote file. An adversary may use desktopimgdownldr to download arbitrary files as an alternative to certutil.

WindowsProcess Creation
Tim Rauch+1Tue Sep 27windows
Detectionhightest

Suspicious Desktopimgdownldr Command

Detects a suspicious Microsoft desktopimgdownldr execution with parameters used to download files from the Internet

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Fri Jul 03windows
Detectionhighexperimental

Devcon Execution Disabling VMware VMCI Device

Detects execution of devcon.exe with commands that disable the VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) device. This can be legitimate during VMware Tools troubleshooting or driver conflicts, but may also indicate malware attempting to hijack communication with the hardware via the VMCI device. This has been used to facilitate VMware ESXi vulnerability exploits to escape VMs and execute code on the ESXi host.

WindowsProcess Creation
Matt Anderson+2Fri Jan 02windows
Detectionmediumtest

Potential DLL Sideloading Via DeviceEnroller.EXE

Detects the use of the PhoneDeepLink parameter to potentially sideload a DLL file that does not exist. This non-existent DLL file is named "ShellChromeAPI.dll". Adversaries can drop their own renamed DLL and execute it via DeviceEnroller.exe using this parameter

WindowsProcess Creation
@gott_cyberMon Aug 29windows
Detectionmediumtest

DeviceCredentialDeployment Execution

Detects the execution of DeviceCredentialDeployment to hide a process from view.

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Fri Aug 19windows
Detectionmediumtest

Arbitrary MSI Download Via Devinit.EXE

Detects a certain command line flag combination used by "devinit.exe", which can be abused as a LOLBIN to download arbitrary MSI packages on a Windows system

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Tue Jan 11windows
Detectionmediumtest

Potentially Suspicious Child Process Of ClickOnce Application

Detects potentially suspicious child processes of a ClickOnce deployment application

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Mon Jun 12windows
Detectionlowtest

DirLister Execution

Detect the usage of "DirLister.exe" a utility for quickly listing folder or drive contents. It was seen used by BlackCat ransomware to create a list of accessible directories and files.

WindowsProcess Creation
François HubautSat Aug 20windows
Detectionlowexperimental

System Information Discovery via Registry Queries

Detects attempts to query system information directly from the Windows Registry.

WindowsProcess Creation
lazargThu Jun 12windows
Detectionmediumtest

Potentially Suspicious Child Process Of DiskShadow.EXE

Detects potentially suspicious child processes of "Diskshadow.exe". This could be an attempt to bypass parent/child relationship detection or application whitelisting rules.

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Fri Sep 15windows
Detectionmediumtest

Diskshadow Script Mode - Uncommon Script Extension Execution

Detects execution of "Diskshadow.exe" in script mode to execute an script with a potentially uncommon extension. Initial baselining of the allowed extension list is required.

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Fri Sep 15windows
Detectionmediumtest

Diskshadow Script Mode - Execution From Potential Suspicious Location

Detects execution of "Diskshadow.exe" in script mode using the "/s" flag where the script is located in a potentially suspicious location.

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Fri Sep 15windows
Detectionhightest

PowerShell Web Access Feature Enabled Via DISM

Detects the use of DISM to enable the PowerShell Web Access feature, which could be used for remote access and potential abuse

WindowsProcess Creation
Michael HaagTue Sep 03windows
Detectionmediumtest

Dism Remove Online Package

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool. DISM is used to enumerate, install, uninstall, configure, and update features and packages in Windows images

WindowsProcess Creation
François HubautSun Jan 16windows
Detectionhightest

Dllhost.EXE Execution Anomaly

Detects a "dllhost" process spawning with no commandline arguments which is very rare to happen and could indicate process injection activity or malware mimicking similar system processes.

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Mon Jun 27windows
Detectionhightest

DLL Sideloading by VMware Xfer Utility

Detects execution of VMware Xfer utility (VMwareXferlogs.exe) from the non-default directory which may be an attempt to sideload arbitrary DLL

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Tue Aug 02windows
Detectionmediumtest

Potential Discovery Activity Via Dnscmd.EXE

Detects an attempt to leverage dnscmd.exe to enumerate the DNS zones of a domain. DNS zones used to host the DNS records for a particular domain.

WindowsProcess Creation
@gott_cyberSun Jul 31windows
Detectionhightest

New DNS ServerLevelPluginDll Installed Via Dnscmd.EXE

Detects the installation of a DNS plugin DLL via ServerLevelPluginDll parameter in registry, which can be used to execute code in context of the DNS server (restart required)

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Mon May 08windows
Detectionhightest

DNS Exfiltration and Tunneling Tools Execution

Well-known DNS Exfiltration tools execution

WindowsProcess Creation
Daniil Yugoslavskiy+1Thu Oct 24windows
Detectionhightest

Unusual Child Process of dns.exe

Detects an unexpected process spawning from dns.exe which may indicate activity related to remote code execution or other forms of exploitation as seen in CVE-2020-1350 (SigRed)

WindowsProcess Creation
Tim Rauch+1Tue Sep 27windows
Detectionmediumtest

Potential Application Whitelisting Bypass via Dnx.EXE

Detects the execution of Dnx.EXE. The Dnx utility allows for the execution of C# code. Attackers might abuse this in order to bypass application whitelisting.

WindowsProcess Creation
Beyu Denis+1Sat Oct 26windows
Detectionmediumtest

Process Memory Dump Via Dotnet-Dump

Detects the execution of "dotnet-dump" with the "collect" flag. The execution could indicate potential process dumping of critical processes such as LSASS.

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Tue Mar 14windows
Detectionmediumtest

Arbitrary DLL or Csproj Code Execution Via Dotnet.EXE

Detects execution of arbitrary DLLs or unsigned code via a ".csproj" files via Dotnet.EXE.

WindowsProcess Creation
Beyu Denis+1Sun Oct 18windows
Detectionmediumtest

Binary Proxy Execution Via Dotnet-Trace.EXE

Detects commandline arguments for executing a child process via dotnet-trace.exe

WindowsProcess Creation
Jimmy BayneTue Jan 02windows
Detectionhightest

Potential Recon Activity Using DriverQuery.EXE

Detect usage of the "driverquery" utility to perform reconnaissance on installed drivers

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Thu Jan 19windows
Detectionmediumtest

DriverQuery.EXE Execution

Detect usage of the "driverquery" utility. Which can be used to perform reconnaissance on installed drivers

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Thu Jan 19windows
Detectionmediumtest

Potentially Over Permissive Permissions Granted Using Dsacls.EXE

Detects usage of Dsacls to grant over permissive permissions

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Mon Jun 20windows
Detectionmediumtest

Potential Password Spraying Attempt Using Dsacls.EXE

Detects possible password spraying attempts using Dsacls

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Mon Jun 20windows
Detectionmediumtest

Domain Trust Discovery Via Dsquery

Detects execution of "dsquery.exe" for domain trust discovery

WindowsProcess Creation
E.M. Anhaus+3Thu Oct 24windows
Detectionhightest

Suspicious Kernel Dump Using Dtrace

Detects suspicious way to dump the kernel on Windows systems using dtrace.exe, which is available on Windows systems since Windows 10 19H1

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Tue Dec 28windows
Detectionhightest

Potential Windows Defender AV Bypass Via Dump64.EXE Rename

Detects when a user is potentially trying to bypass the Windows Defender AV by renaming a tool to dump64.exe and placing it in the Visual Studio folder. Currently the rule is covering only usage of procdump but other utilities can be added in order to increase coverage.

WindowsProcess Creation
Austin Songer+2Fri Nov 26windows
Detectionmediumtest

DumpMinitool Execution

Detects the use of "DumpMinitool.exe" a tool that allows the dump of process memory via the use of the "MiniDumpWriteDump"

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)+1Wed Apr 06windows
Detectionhightest

Suspicious DumpMinitool Execution

Detects suspicious ways to use the "DumpMinitool.exe" binary

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Wed Apr 06windows
Detectionmediumtest

New Capture Session Launched Via DXCap.EXE

Detects the execution of "DXCap.EXE" with the "-c" flag, which allows a user to launch any arbitrary binary or windows package through DXCap itself. This can be abused to potentially bypass application whitelisting.

WindowsProcess Creation
Beyu Denis+2Sat Oct 26windows
Detectionmediumtest

Esentutl Gather Credentials

Conti recommendation to its affiliates to use esentutl to access NTDS dumped file. Trickbot also uses this utilities to get MSEdge info via its module pwgrab.

WindowsProcess Creation
sam0x90Fri Aug 06windows
Detectionhightest

Copying Sensitive Files with Credential Data

Files with well-known filenames (sensitive files with credential data) copying

WindowsProcess Creation
Teymur Kheirkhabarov+2Tue Oct 22windows
Detectionmediumtest

Esentutl Steals Browser Information

One way Qbot steals sensitive information is by extracting browser data from Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge by using the built-in utility esentutl.exe

WindowsProcess Creation
François HubautSun Feb 13windows
Detectionhightest

Potentially Suspicious Event Viewer Child Process

Detects uncommon or suspicious child processes of "eventvwr.exe" which might indicate a UAC bypass attempt

WindowsProcess Creation
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)Sun Mar 19windows
Detectionhighexperimental

Security Event Logging Disabled via MiniNt Registry Key - Process

Detects attempts to disable security event logging by adding the `MiniNt` registry key. This key is used to disable the Windows Event Log service, which collects and stores event logs from the operating system and applications. Adversaries may want to disable this service to prevent logging of security events that could be used to detect their activities.

WindowsProcess Creation
Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)Wed Apr 09windows