Detection rules › Sigma

Potential Command Line Path Traversal Evasion Attempt

Severity
medium
Author
Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects potential evasion or obfuscation attempts using bogus path traversal via the commandline

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Defense EvasionT1036 Masquerading

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: 1 of selection_1

or:
CommandLine|contains: '\..\..\'
CommandLine|contains: '\..\System32\'
CommandLine|contains: '\..\Windows\'
Image|contains: '\Windows\'

Stage 2: 1 of selection_2

CommandLine|contains: '.exe\..\'

Stage 3: not 1 of filter_optional_*

or:
CommandLine|contains: '\Citrix\Virtual Smart Card\Citrix.Authentication.VirtualSmartcard.Launcher.exe\..\'
CommandLine|contains: '\Google\Drive\googledrivesync.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
  • .exe\..\
  • \..\..\
  • \..\System32\
  • \..\Windows\
  • \Citrix\Virtual Smart Card\Citrix.Authentication.VirtualSmartcard.Launcher.exe\..\
  • \Google\Drive\googledrivesync.exe\..\
Imagematch
  • \Windows\