Detection rules › Sigma

Potential appverifUI.DLL Sideloading

Severity
high
Author
X__Junior (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects potential DLL sideloading of "appverifUI.dll"

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
PersistenceT1574.001 Hijack Execution Flow: DLL
Privilege EscalationT1574.001 Hijack Execution Flow: DLL
Defense EvasionT1574.001 Hijack Execution Flow: DLL

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon7Image loaded

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

ImageLoaded|endswith: '\appverifUI.dll'

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_legit_path

Image: ['C:\Windows\SysWOW64\appverif.exe', 'C:\Windows\System32\appverif.exe']
or:
ImageLoaded|startswith: 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\'
ImageLoaded|startswith: 'C:\Windows\System32\'
ImageLoaded|startswith: 'C:\Windows\WinSxS\'

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
Imageeq
  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\appverif.exe
  • C:\Windows\System32\appverif.exe
ImageLoadedends_with
  • \appverifUI.dll
ImageLoadedstarts_with
  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ corpus 8 (sigma 8)
  • C:\Windows\System32\ corpus 8 (sigma 8)
  • C:\Windows\WinSxS\ corpus 9 (sigma 9)