MediumSigmaHQ Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf) +1

Potentially Suspicious Usage Of Qemu

Detects potentially suspicious execution of the Qemu utility in a Windows environment. Threat actors have leveraged this utility and this technique for achieving network access as reported by Kaspersky.

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 product: windows
Log source category: process_creation

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
securelist.com/network-tunneling-with-qemu/111803/	Unclassified	2from 2 sources
www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/invocation.html#hxtool-5	Unclassified	Only this detection cites it

Detection rules

Potentially Suspicious Usage Of Qemu

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules