Detection rules › Sigma

Compressed File Extraction Via Tar.EXE

Severity
low
Author
AdmU3
Source
upstream

Detects execution of "tar.exe" in order to extract compressed file. Adversaries may abuse various utilities in order to decompress data to avoid detection.

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
CollectionT1560 Archive Collected Data, T1560.001 Archive Collected Data: Archive via Utility

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon1Process creation

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: all of selection_img

or:
Image|endswith: '\tar.exe'
OriginalFileName: bsdtar

Stage 2: all of selection_extract

CommandLine|contains: -x

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
  • -x
Imageends_with
  • \tar.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)
OriginalFileNameeq
  • bsdtar corpus 2 (sigma 2)