Detection rules › Sigma

Renamed NirCmd.EXE Execution

Severity
high
Author
X__Junior (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects the execution of a renamed "NirCmd.exe" binary based on the PE metadata fields.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ExecutionT1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Defense EvasionT1202 Indirect Command Execution

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

OriginalFileName: NirCmd.exe

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_img

or:
Image|endswith: '\nircmd.exe'
Image|endswith: '\nircmdc.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
  • \nircmd.exe
  • \nircmdc.exe
OriginalFileNameeq
  • NirCmd.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)