Detection rules › Sigma

Run PowerShell Script from ADS

Severity
high
Author
Sergey Soldatov, Kaspersky Lab, oscd.community
Source
upstream

Detects PowerShell script execution from Alternate Data Stream (ADS)

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1564.004 Hide Artifacts: NTFS File Attributes

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
Image|endswith: '\powershell.exe'
Image|endswith: '\pwsh.exe'
or:
ParentImage|endswith: '\powershell.exe'
ParentImage|endswith: '\pwsh.exe'
CommandLine|contains: -Stream
CommandLine|contains: Get-Content

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
  • -Stream
  • Get-Content corpus 2 (sigma 2)
Imageends_with
  • \powershell.exe corpus 143 (sigma 143)
  • \pwsh.exe corpus 140 (sigma 140)
ParentImageends_with
  • \powershell.exe corpus 16 (sigma 16)
  • \pwsh.exe corpus 16 (sigma 16)