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HackTool - Empire PowerShell Launch Parameters

Severity
high
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects suspicious powershell command line parameters used in Empire

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
CommandLine|contains: ' -NoP -NonI -W Hidden -enc '
CommandLine|contains: ' -NoP -sta -NonI -W Hidden -Enc '
CommandLine|contains: ' -enc  SQB'
CommandLine|contains: ' -noP -sta -w 1 -enc '
CommandLine|contains: ' -noP -sta -w 1 -enc'
CommandLine|contains: ' -nop -exec bypass -EncodedCommand '

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
  • -NoP -NonI -W Hidden -enc
  • -NoP -sta -NonI -W Hidden -Enc
  • -enc SQB
  • -noP -sta -w 1 -enc
  • -noP -sta -w 1 -enc
  • -nop -exec bypass -EncodedCommand