Detection rules › Sigma

Add Debugger Entry To AeDebug For Persistence

Severity
medium
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects when an attacker adds a new "Debugger" value to the "AeDebug" key in order to achieve persistence which will get invoked when an application crashes

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Details|endswith: .dll
TargetObject|contains: '\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Debugger'

Stage 2: not filter

Details: '"C:\WINDOWS\system32\vsjitdebugger.exe" -p %ld -e %ld -j 0x%p'

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
Detailsends_with
  • .dll corpus 3 (sigma 3)
Detailseq
  • "C:\WINDOWS\system32\vsjitdebugger.exe" -p %ld -e %ld -j 0x%p
TargetObjectmatch
  • \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Debugger