Rule Library

Sigma Rules

20 rules found for "NCSC"

3,707Total
3,116Detection
451Emerging
137Hunting
Emerging Threathightest

Potential Devil Bait Related Indicator

Detects the creation of ".xml" and ".txt" files in folders of the "\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft" directory by uncommon processes. This behavior was seen common across different Devil Bait samples and stages as described by the NCSC

WindowsFile Event
TA0005 · Defense Evasiondetection.emerging-threats
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Mon May 152021
Emerging Threathightest

Potential Devil Bait Malware Reconnaissance

Detects specific process behavior observed with Devil Bait samples

WindowsProcess Creation
TA0005 · Defense EvasionT1218 · System Binary Proxy Executiondetection.emerging-threats
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)+1Mon May 152021
Emerging Threathightest

Devil Bait Potential C2 Communication Traffic

Detects potential C2 communication related to Devil Bait malware

Proxy Log
TA0011 · Command and Controldetection.emerging-threats
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Mon May 152021
Emerging Threathightest

Goofy Guineapig Backdoor IOC

Detects malicious indicators seen used by the Goofy Guineapig malware

WindowsFile Event
TA0002 · ExecutionTA0005 · Defense Evasiondetection.emerging-threats
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Sun May 142021
Emerging Threathightest

Potential Goofy Guineapig Backdoor Activity

Detects a specific broken command that was used by Goofy-Guineapig as described by the NCSC report.

WindowsProcess Creation
TA0002 · Executiondetection.emerging-threats
X__Junior (Nextron Systems)Sun May 142021
Emerging Threathightest

Potential Goofy Guineapig GoolgeUpdate Process Anomaly

Detects "GoogleUpdate.exe" spawning a new instance of itself in an uncommon location as seen used by the Goofy Guineapig backdoor

WindowsProcess Creation
TA0005 · Defense Evasiondetection.emerging-threats
X__Junior (Nextron Systems)+1Mon May 152021
Emerging Threathightest

Goofy Guineapig Backdoor Potential C2 Communication

Detects potential C2 communication related to Goofy Guineapig backdoor

Proxy Log
TA0011 · Command and Controldetection.emerging-threats
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Sun May 142021
Emerging Threatcriticaltest

Goofy Guineapig Backdoor Service Creation

Detects service creation persistence used by the Goofy Guineapig backdoor

Windowssystem
TA0003 · Persistencedetection.emerging-threats
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Mon May 152021
Emerging Threathightest

Small Sieve Malware File Indicator Creation

Detects filename indicators that contain a specific typo seen used by the Small Sieve malware.

WindowsFile Event
TA0005 · Defense EvasionT1036.005 · Match Legitimate Name or Locationdetection.emerging-threats
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)+1Fri May 192021
Emerging Threathightest

Small Sieve Malware CommandLine Indicator

Detects specific command line argument being passed to a binary as seen being used by the malware Small Sieve.

WindowsProcess Creation
TA0004 · Privilege EscalationTA0005 · Defense EvasionTA0003 · PersistenceT1574.001 · DLL Search Order Hijacking+1
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Fri May 192021
Emerging Threatcriticaltest

Small Sieve Malware Potential C2 Communication

Detects potential C2 communication related to Small Sieve malware

Proxy Log
TA0011 · Command and Controldetection.emerging-threats
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Fri May 192021
Emerging Threathightest

Small Sieve Malware Registry Persistence

Detects registry value with specific intentional typo and strings seen used by the Small Sieve malware

WindowsRegistry Set
TA0003 · Persistencedetection.emerging-threats
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Fri May 192021
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
TA0003 · PersistenceTA0005 · Defense Evasiondetection.emerging-threats
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
TA0003 · PersistenceTA0005 · Defense Evasiondetection.emerging-threats
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)
TA0003 · PersistenceTA0005 · Defense Evasiondetection.emerging-threats
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
TA0003 · PersistenceTA0005 · Defense Evasiondetection.emerging-threats
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
TA0003 · PersistenceTA0005 · Defense Evasiondetection.emerging-threats
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
TA0003 · PersistenceTA0005 · Defense Evasiondetection.emerging-threats
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
TA0003 · Persistencedetection.emerging-threats
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
TA0005 · Defense EvasionTA0003 · Persistencedetection.emerging-threats
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)Tue May 022023