Detection rules › Sigma

Files Added To An Archive Using Rar.EXE

Severity
low
Author
Timur Zinniatullin, E.M. Anhaus, oscd.community
Source
upstream

Detects usage of "rar" to add files to an archive for potential compression. An adversary may compress data (e.g. sensitive documents) that is collected prior to exfiltration in order to make it portable and minimize the amount of data sent over the network.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
CollectionT1560.001 Archive Collected Data: Archive via Utility

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: ' a '
Image|endswith: '\rar.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
CommandLinematch
  • a corpus 4 (sigma 4)
Imageends_with
  • \rar.exe corpus 4 (sigma 4)