Detection rules › Sigma

Run PowerShell Script from Redirected Input Stream

Severity
high
Author
Moriarty Meng (idea), Anton Kutepov (rule), oscd.community
Source
upstream

Detects PowerShell script execution via input stream redirect

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

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'
CommandLine|re: '\s-\s*<'

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
CommandLineregex_match
  • \s-\s*<
Imageends_with
  • \powershell.exe corpus 143 (sigma 143)
  • \pwsh.exe corpus 140 (sigma 140)