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Sigma Rules

8 rules found for "COLDSTEEL"

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

Potential COLDSTEEL RAT File Indicators

Detects the creation of a file named "dllhost.exe" in the "C:\users\public\Documents\" directory. Seen being used by the COLDSTEEL RAT in some of its variants.

WindowsFile Event
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Sun Apr 302023
Emerging Threathightest

Potential COLDSTEEL Persistence Service DLL Creation

Detects the creation of a file in a specific location and with a specific name related to COLDSTEEL RAT

WindowsFile Event
X__Junior (Nextron Systems)Sun Apr 302023
Emerging Threathightest

Potential COLDSTEEL Persistence Service DLL Load

Detects a suspicious DLL load by an "svchost" process based on location and name that might be related to ColdSteel RAT. This DLL location and name has been seen used by ColdSteel as the service DLL for its persistence mechanism

WindowsImage Load (DLL)
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Tue May 022023
Emerging Threathightest

COLDSTEEL RAT Anonymous User Process Execution

Detects the creation of a process executing as user called "ANONYMOUS" seen used by the "MileStone2016" variant of COLDSTEEL

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Sun Apr 302023
Emerging Threatcriticaltest

COLDSTEEL RAT Cleanup Command Execution

Detects the creation of a "rundll32" process from the ColdSteel persistence service to initiate the cleanup command by calling one of its own exports. This functionality is not present in "MileStone2017" and some "MileStone2016" samples

WindowsProcess Creation
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Sun Apr 302023
Emerging Threatcriticaltest

COLDSTEEL RAT Service Persistence Execution

Detects the creation of an "svchost" process with specific command line flags, that were seen present and used by ColdSteel RAT

WindowsProcess Creation
X__Junior (Nextron Systems)Sun Apr 302023
Emerging Threathightest

Potential COLDSTEEL RAT Windows User Creation

Detects creation of a new user profile with a specific username, seen being used by some variants of the COLDSTEEL RAT.

WindowsRegistry Set
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Tue May 022023
Emerging Threathightest

COLDSTEEL Persistence Service Creation

Detects the creation of new services potentially related to COLDSTEEL RAT

Windowssystem
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Tue May 022023