HighSigmaHQ Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)

Raw Paste Service Access

Detects direct access to raw pastes in different paste services often used by malware in their second stages to download malicious code in encrypted or encoded form

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform: ESXi Linux macOS Network Devices Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 2 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
Log source category: proxy

Known benign triggers

User activity (e.g. developer that shared and copied code snippets and used the raw link instead of just copy & paste)

References

Links the source published beside this detection. Reference is the link the source wrote, unmodified. Class is decided by this catalogue from the host and path, not stated by the source. Cited by counts published detections citing the same resource, including this one, and the sources beneath it count the repositories this catalogue ingests, which is not the same as independent research.
Reference	Class	Cited by
www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/paste.ee/relations	Sandbox submission	2from 2 sources

Detection rules

Raw Paste Service Access

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules