HighSigmaHQ frack113

Suspicious Executable File Creation

Detect creation of suspicious executable file names. Some strings look for suspicious file extensions, others look for filenames that exploit unquoted service paths.

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Detection requirements

Platform: ESXi Linux macOS Office Suite Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the ATT&CK technique it maps to.
Log source product: windows
Log source category: file_event

Known benign triggers

Unknown

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
app.any.run/tasks/76c69e2d-01e8-49d9-9aea-fb7cc0c4d3ad/	Sandbox submission	Only this detection cites it
medium.com/@SumitVerma101/windows-privilege-escalation-part-1-unquoted-service-path-c7a011a8d8ae	Unclassified	2from 2 sources

Detection rules

Suspicious Executable File Creation

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules