Detection rules › Sigma

Microsoft Sync Center Suspicious Network Connections

Severity
medium
Author
elhoim
Source
upstream

Detects suspicious connections from Microsoft Sync Center to non-private IPs.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Privilege EscalationT1055 Process Injection
Defense EvasionT1055 Process Injection, T1218 System Binary Proxy Execution

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon3Network connection

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Image|endswith: '\mobsync.exe'

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_local_ranges

or:
DestinationIp|cidr: '10.0.0.0/8'
DestinationIp|cidr: '127.0.0.0/8'
DestinationIp|cidr: '169.254.0.0/16'
DestinationIp|cidr: '172.16.0.0/12'
DestinationIp|cidr: '192.168.0.0/16'
DestinationIp|cidr: '::1/128'
DestinationIp|cidr: 'fc00::/7'
DestinationIp|cidr: 'fe80::/10'

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
DestinationIpcidr_match
  • 10.0.0.0/8 corpus 12 (sigma 12)
  • 127.0.0.0/8 corpus 13 (sigma 13)
  • 169.254.0.0/16 corpus 12 (sigma 12)
  • 172.16.0.0/12 corpus 12 (sigma 12)
  • 192.168.0.0/16 corpus 12 (sigma 12)
  • ::1/128 corpus 13 (sigma 13)
  • fc00::/7 corpus 12 (sigma 12)
  • fe80::/10 corpus 12 (sigma 12)
Imageends_with
  • \mobsync.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)