Detection rules › Sigma

Potential Qakbot Registry Activity

Severity
high
Author
Hieu Tran
Source
upstream

Detects a registry key used by IceID in a campaign that distributes malicious OneNote files

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
PersistenceT1112 Modify Registry
Defense EvasionT1112 Modify Registry

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon12RegistryEvent (Object create and delete)
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)
Sysmon14RegistryEvent (Key and Value Rename)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

TargetObject|endswith: '\Software\firm\soft\Name'

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
TargetObjectends_with
  • \Software\firm\soft\Name