Detection rules › Sigma

Process Launched Without Image Name

Severity
medium
Author
Matt Anderson (Huntress)
Source
upstream

Detect the use of processes with no name (".exe"), which can be used to evade Image-based detections.

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Image|endswith: '\.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
  • \.exe