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Uncommon FileSystem Load Attempt By Format.com

Severity
high
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects the execution of format.com with an uncommon filesystem selection that could indicate a defense evasion activity in which "format.com" is used to load malicious DLL files or other programs.

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation
Security-Auditing4688A new process has been created.

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: '/fs:'
Image|endswith: '\format.com'

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_known_fs

or:
CommandLine|contains: '/fs:FAT'
CommandLine|contains: '/fs:NTFS'
CommandLine|contains: '/fs:ReFS'
CommandLine|contains: '/fs:UDF'
CommandLine|contains: '/fs:exFAT'

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
  • /fs:
  • /fs:FAT
  • /fs:NTFS
  • /fs:ReFS
  • /fs:UDF
  • /fs:exFAT
Imageends_with
  • \format.com