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Potential DLL Sideloading Of Libcurl.DLL Via GUP.EXE

Severity
medium
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects potential DLL sideloading of "libcurl.dll" by the "gup.exe" process from an uncommon location

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

Image|endswith: '\gup.exe'
ImageLoaded|endswith: '\libcurl.dll'

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_notepad_plusplus

Image|endswith: '\Notepad++\updater\GUP.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.

FieldKindValues
Imageends_with
  • \Notepad++\updater\GUP.exe
  • \gup.exe corpus 3 (sigma 3)
ImageLoadedends_with
  • \libcurl.dll