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Renamed Msdt.EXE Execution

Severity
high
Author
pH-T (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects the execution of a renamed "Msdt.exe" binary

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1036.003 Masquerading: Rename Legitimate Utilities

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

OriginalFileName: msdt.exe

Stage 2: not filter

Image|endswith: '\msdt.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
  • \msdt.exe corpus 10 (sigma 10)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • msdt.exe corpus 6 (sigma 6)