Detection rules › Sigma

Uncommon Sigverif.EXE Child Process

Severity
medium
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects uncommon child processes spawning from "sigverif.exe", which could indicate potential abuse of the latter as a living of the land binary in order to proxy execution.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1216 System Script Proxy Execution

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

ParentImage|endswith: '\sigverif.exe'

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_main_werfault

Image: ['C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe', 'C:\Windows\System32\WerFault.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
Imageeq
  • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WerFault.exe
  • C:\Windows\System32\WerFault.exe
ParentImageends_with
  • \sigverif.exe