Virtualbox Driver Installation or Starting of VMs

Adversaries can carry out malicious operations using a virtual instance to avoid detection. This rule is built to detect the registration of the Virtualbox driver or start of a Virtualbox VM.

Detection logic

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: process_creation

Known benign triggers

This may have false positives on hosts where Virtualbox is legitimately being used for operations

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
news.sophos.com/en-us/2020/05/21/ragnar-locker-ransomware-deploys-virtual-machine-to-dodge-security/	Threat report	Only this detection cites it
threatpost.com/maze-ransomware-ragnar-locker-virtual-machine/159350/	Unclassified	Only this detection cites it

Detection rules

Virtualbox Driver Installation or Starting of VMs

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules