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Suspicious Execution of Shutdown to Log Out

Severity
medium
Author
frack113
Source
upstream

Detects the rare use of the command line tool shutdown to logoff a user

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
ImpactT1529 System Shutdown/Reboot

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: '/l'
Image|endswith: '\shutdown.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
  • /l
Imageends_with
  • \shutdown.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)