Detection rules › Sigma

Visual Studio NodejsTools PressAnyKey Renamed Execution

Severity
medium
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects renamed execution of "Microsoft.NodejsTools.PressAnyKey.exe", which can be abused as a LOLBIN to execute arbitrary binaries

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1218 System Binary Proxy Execution

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

OriginalFileName: 'Microsoft.NodejsTools.PressAnyKey.exe'

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_legit_name

Image|endswith: '\Microsoft.NodejsTools.PressAnyKey.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
  • \Microsoft.NodejsTools.PressAnyKey.exe
OriginalFileNameeq
  • Microsoft.NodejsTools.PressAnyKey.exe