HackTool - PowerTool Execution

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

Detects the execution of the tool PowerTool which has the ability to kill a process, delete its process file, unload drivers, and delete the driver files

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Tactic	Techniques
Defense Evasion	`T1562.001` Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools

Event coverage

Provider	Event ID	Title
Sysmon	1	Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: `selection`

or:
Image|endswith: '\PowerTool.exe'
Image|endswith: '\PowerTool64.exe'
OriginalFileName: PowerTool.exe

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.