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Renamed BOINC Client Execution

Severity
medium
Author
Matt Anderson (Huntress)
Source
upstream

Detects the execution of a renamed BOINC binary.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1553 Subvert Trust Controls

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

OriginalFileName: BOINC.exe

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_legit_name

Image|endswith: '\BOINC.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
  • \BOINC.exe
OriginalFileNameeq
  • BOINC.exe