HighSigmaHQ Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)

Suspicious Persistence Via VMwareToolBoxCmd.EXE VM State Change Script

Detects execution of the "VMwareToolBoxCmd.exe" with the "script" and "set" flag to setup a specific script that's located in a potentially suspicious location to run for a specific VM state

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Detection requirements

Platform: Containers ESXi IaaS Identity Provider Linux macOS Network Devices Office Suite SaaS 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

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
bohops.com/2021/10/08/analyzing-and-detecting-a-vmtools-persistence-technique/	Security research	3

Detection rules

Suspicious Persistence Via VMwareToolBoxCmd.EXE VM State Change Script

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

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