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HackTool - CoercedPotato Named Pipe Creation

Severity
high
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects the pattern of a pipe name as used by the hack tool CoercedPotato

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Privilege EscalationT1055 Process Injection
Defense EvasionT1055 Process Injection

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon17PipeEvent (Pipe Created)
Sysmon18PipeEvent (Pipe Connected)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

PipeName|contains: '\coerced\'

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
PipeNamematch
  • \coerced\