HackTool - LocalPotato Execution

Severity: high
Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source: upstream

Detects the execution of the LocalPotato POC based on basic PE metadata information and default CLI examples

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	1	Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `1 of selection_img`

Image|endswith: '\LocalPotato.exe'

Stage 2: `1 of selection_cli`

CommandLine|contains: '-o Windows\'
CommandLine|contains: '.exe -i C:\'

Stage 3: `1 of selection_hash_plain`

or:
Hashes|contains: 'IMPHASH=DD82066EFBA94D7556EF582F247C8BB5'
Hashes|contains: 'IMPHASH=E1742EE971D6549E8D4D81115F88F1FC'

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.

Field	Kind	Values
`CommandLine`	match	`-o Windows\` `.exe -i C:\`
`Hashes`	match	`IMPHASH=DD82066EFBA94D7556EF582F247C8BB5` `IMPHASH=E1742EE971D6549E8D4D81115F88F1FC`
`Image`	ends_with	`\LocalPotato.exe` corpus 2 (sigma 2)