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Potentially Suspicious Usage Of Qemu

Severity
medium
Author
Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf), Hunter Juhan (@threatHNTR)
Source
upstream

Detects potentially suspicious execution of the Qemu utility in a Windows environment. Threat actors have leveraged this utility and this technique for achieving network access as reported by Kaspersky.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Command & ControlT1090 Proxy, T1572 Protocol Tunneling

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
CommandLine|contains: '-m 1M'
CommandLine|contains: '-m 2M'
CommandLine|contains: '-m 3M'
CommandLine|contains: '-netdev '
CommandLine|contains: -nographic
CommandLine|contains: 'connect='
CommandLine|contains: 'restrict=off'

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_normal_usecase

or:
CommandLine|contains: ' -blockdev '
CommandLine|contains: ' -cdrom '
CommandLine|contains: ' type=virt '

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
  • -blockdev
  • -cdrom
  • type=virt
  • -m 1M
  • -m 2M
  • -m 3M
  • -netdev
  • -nographic
  • connect=
  • restrict=off