Detection rules › Sigma

Network Connection Initiated By IMEWDBLD.EXE

Severity
high
Author
frack113
Source
upstream

Detects a network connection initiated by IMEWDBLD.EXE. This might indicate potential abuse of the utility as a LOLBIN in order to download arbitrary files or additional payloads.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Command & ControlT1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon3Network connection

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Image|endswith: '\IMEWDBLD.exe'
Initiated: true

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
  • \IMEWDBLD.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)
Initiatedeq
  • true corpus 40 (sigma 40)