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Suspicious Printer Driver Empty Manufacturer

Severity
high
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
upstream

Detects a suspicious printer driver installation with an empty Manufacturer value

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
PersistenceT1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Privilege EscalationT1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Defense EvasionT1574 Hijack Execution Flow

Event coverage

ProviderEvent IDTitle
Sysmon13RegistryEvent (Value Set)

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: selection

Details: '(Empty)'
TargetObject|contains: '\Control\Print\Environments\Windows x64\Drivers'
TargetObject|contains: '\Manufacturer'

Stage 2: not 1 of filter_*

or:
TargetObject|contains: '\CutePDF Writer v4.0\'
TargetObject|contains: '\VNC Printer (PS)\'
TargetObject|contains: '\VNC Printer (UD)\'
TargetObject|contains: '\Version-3\PDF24\'

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
Detailseq
  • (Empty) corpus 24 (sigma 24)
TargetObjectmatch
  • \Control\Print\Environments\Windows x64\Drivers
  • \CutePDF Writer v4.0\
  • \Manufacturer
  • \VNC Printer (PS)\
  • \VNC Printer (UD)\
  • \Version-3\PDF24\