Detection rules › Sigma

PowerShell Called from an Executable Version Mismatch

Severity
high
Author
Sean Metcalf (source), Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects PowerShell called from an executable by the version mismatch method

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
PowerShell400

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_engine

or:
Data|contains: 'EngineVersion=2.'
Data|contains: 'EngineVersion=4.'
Data|contains: 'EngineVersion=5.'

Stage 2: all of selection_host

Data|contains: 'HostVersion=3.'

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
Datamatch
  • EngineVersion=2. corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • EngineVersion=4.
  • EngineVersion=5.
  • HostVersion=3.