Detection rules › Sigma

New PowerShell Instance Created

Severity
informational
Author
Roberto Rodriguez (Cyb3rWard0g), OTR (Open Threat Research)
Source
upstream

Detects the execution of PowerShell via the creation of a named pipe starting with PSHost

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

PipeName|startswith: '\PSHost'

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
PipeNamestarts_with
  • \PSHost corpus 2 (sigma 2)