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Wab Execution From Non Default Location

Severity
high
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects execution of wab.exe (Windows Contacts) and Wabmig.exe (Microsoft Address Book Import Tool) from non default locations as seen with bumblebee activity

Event coverage

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

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

or:
Image|endswith: '\wab.exe'
Image|endswith: '\wabmig.exe'

Stage 2: not filter

or:
Image|startswith: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Mail\'
Image|startswith: 'C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\'
Image|startswith: 'C:\Windows\WinSxS\'

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
  • \wab.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)
  • \wabmig.exe corpus 2 (sigma 2)
Imagestarts_with
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Mail\
  • C:\Program Files\Windows Mail\
  • C:\Windows\WinSxS\ corpus 13 (sigma 13)

Neighbors

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