Detection rules › Sigma

Potential Execution of Sysinternals Tools

Severity
low
Author
Markus Neis
Source
upstream

Detects command lines that contain the 'accepteula' flag which could be a sign of execution of one of the Sysinternals tools

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Resource DevelopmentT1588.002 Obtain Capabilities: Tool

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

CommandLine|contains: ' -accepteula'

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
  • -accepteula