Detection rules › Kusto Query Language
Midnight Blizzard - suspicious rundll32.exe execution of vbscript (Normalized Process Events)
'This query idenifies when rundll32.exe executes a specific set of inline VBScript commands References: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/03/04/goldmax-goldfinder-sibot-analyzing-nobelium-malware/ To use this analytics rule, make sure you have deployed the ASIM normalization parsers'
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Persistence | T1547 Boot or Logon Autostart Execution |
| Privilege Escalation | T1547 Boot or Logon Autostart Execution |
Event coverage
| Provider | Event ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon | 1 | Process creation |
| Sysmon | 5 | Process terminated |
| Security-Auditing | 4688 | A new process has been created. |
| Security-Auditing | 4689 | A process has exited. |
Stages and Predicates
Stage 1: source
imProcessCreate
Stage 2: where
Process ends_with "rundll32.exe"
Stage 3: where
CommandLine match ["Execute", "RegRead", "window.close"]
Stage 4: project
Stage 5: extend
Stage 6: extend
Stage 7: extend
Stage 8: project-away
Indicators
Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.
| Field | Kind | Values |
|---|---|---|
CommandLine | match |
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Process | ends_with |
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