Detection rules › Sigma

Potential Vivaldi_elf.DLL Sideloading

Severity
medium
Author
X__Junior (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects potential DLL sideloading of "vivaldi_elf.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: '\vivaldi_elf.dll'

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_legit_path

Image|endswith: '\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe'
ImageLoaded|contains: '\Vivaldi\Application\'

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
  • \Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe
ImageLoadedends_with
  • \vivaldi_elf.dll
ImageLoadedmatch
  • \Vivaldi\Application\