Detection rules › Sigma
Virtualbox Driver Installation or Starting of VMs
Adversaries can carry out malicious operations using a virtual instance to avoid detection. This rule is built to detect the registration of the Virtualbox driver or start of a Virtualbox VM.
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Defense Evasion | T1564 Hide Artifacts, T1564.006 Hide Artifacts: Run Virtual Instance |
Event coverage
| Provider | Event ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sysmon | 1 | Process creation |
| Security-Auditing | 4688 | A new process has been created. |
Stages and Predicates
Stage 1: 1 of selection_1
or:
CommandLine|contains: VBoxC.dll
CommandLine|contains: VBoxDrv.sys
CommandLine|contains: 'VBoxRT.dll,RTR3Init'
Stage 2: 1 of selection_2
or:
CommandLine|contains: controlvm
CommandLine|contains: startvm
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.
| Field | Kind | Values |
|---|---|---|
CommandLine | match |
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