Detection rules › Sigma

DNS Query Request By QuickAssist.EXE

Severity
low
Author
Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf)
Source
upstream

Detects DNS queries initiated by "QuickAssist.exe" to Microsoft Quick Assist primary endpoint that is used to establish a session.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Lateral MovementT1210 Exploitation of Remote Services
Command & ControlT1071.001 Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon22DNSEvent (DNS query)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Image|endswith: '\QuickAssist.exe'
QueryName|endswith: 'remoteassistance.support.services.microsoft.com'

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.

FieldKindValues
Imageends_with
  • \QuickAssist.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)
QueryNameends_with
  • remoteassistance.support.services.microsoft.com corpus 2 (sigma 2)