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Nltest.EXE Execution

Severity
low
Author
Arun Chauhan
Source
upstream

Detects nltest commands that can be used for information discovery

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
DiscoveryT1016 System Network Configuration Discovery, T1018 Remote System Discovery, T1482 Domain Trust Discovery

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
Image|endswith: '\nltest.exe'
OriginalFileName: nltestrk.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.

FieldKindValues
Imageends_with
  • \nltest.exe corpus 9 (sigma 9)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • nltestrk.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)