Detection rules › Sigma

Insecure Proxy/DOH Transfer Via Curl.EXE

Severity
medium
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects execution of "curl.exe" with the "insecure" flag over proxy or DOH.

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_img

or:
Image|endswith: '\curl.exe'
OriginalFileName: curl.exe

Stage 2: all of selection_cli

or:
CommandLine|contains: --doh-insecure
CommandLine|contains: --proxy-insecure

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
CommandLinematch
  • --doh-insecure
  • --proxy-insecure
Imageends_with
  • \curl.exe corpus 19 (sigma 19)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • curl.exe corpus 11 (sigma 11)