ATT&CK coverage › Technique
Obtain Capabilities: Tool T1588.002
Adversaries may buy, steal, or download software tools that can be used during targeting. Tools can be open or closed source, free or commercial. A tool can be used for malicious purposes by an adversary, but (unlike malware) were not intended to be used for those purposes (ex: PsExec).
Events covered
4 catalog events are tagged with this technique by at least one rule.
| Provider | Event ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon | 1 | Process creation |
| Sysmon | 11 | FileCreate |
| Sysmon | 13 | RegistryEvent (Value Set) |
| Security-Auditing | 4688 | A new process has been created. |
Authoring guide
Patterns shared across the 10 rules above: which fields they filter on, what specific values they look for, and what they exclude. Field names are normalized across vendors so Sigma's Image, Elastic's process.name, and Splunk's process_name collapse into one row. Each rule contributes at most once per row.
Fields filtered most (9 distinct)
The fields most rules look at when detecting this technique. The How column shows the operators authors use (eq, wildcard, regex_match, match) and how often each appears. Sample values are concrete examples to start from, not an exhaustive list.
Top indicator values (144 distinct)
Specific (field, operator, value) combinations the rules check for, ranked by how many rules under this technique use each one. The Corpus reach column counts how many rules across the entire catalog (any technique) check the same combination. High numbers point to widely-used indicators that are likely noisy on their own; combine them with another condition for useful signal. Blank means the combination is specific to rules under this technique.
Rules under this technique
Every rule in the catalog tagged with this technique, grouped by vendor. Click a rule title for its full predicates, exclusions, and indicators.
Sigma 9 rules
- Hacktool Execution - Imphash
- Hacktool Execution - PE Metadata
- Potential Execution of Sysinternals Tools
- PUA - Sysinternal Tool Execution - Registry
- PUA - Sysinternals Tools Execution - Registry
- Renamed SysInternals DebugView Execution
- Suspicious Execution Of Renamed Sysinternals Tools - Registry
- Suspicious Keyboard Layout Load
- Usage of Renamed Sysinternals Tools - RegistrySet