Potential AVKkid.DLL Sideloading

Severity: medium
Author: X__Junior (Nextron Systems)
Source: upstream

Detects potential DLL sideloading of "AVKkid.dll"

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Persistence	`T1574.001` Hijack Execution Flow: DLL
Privilege Escalation	`T1574.001` Hijack Execution Flow: DLL
Defense Evasion	`T1574.001` Hijack Execution Flow: DLL

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	7	Image loaded

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

ImageLoaded|endswith: '\AVKkid.dll'

Stage 2: `not 1 of filter_main_legit_path`

or:
Image|contains: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\G DATA\'
Image|contains: 'C:\Program Files\G DATA\'
or:
ImageLoaded|startswith: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\G DATA\'
ImageLoaded|startswith: 'C:\Program Files\G DATA\'
Image|endswith: '\AVKKid.exe'

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
`Image`	ends_with	`\AVKKid.exe`
`Image`	match	`C:\Program Files (x86)\G DATA\` `C:\Program Files\G DATA\`
`ImageLoaded`	ends_with	`\AVKkid.dll`
`ImageLoaded`	starts_with	`C:\Program Files (x86)\G DATA\` `C:\Program Files\G DATA\`