HighSigmaHQ Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)

Webshell Hacking Activity Patterns

Detects certain parent child patterns found in cases in which a web shell is used to perform certain credential dumping or exfiltration activities on a compromised system

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Platform: ESXi IaaS Identity Provider Linux macOS Network Devices Office Suite SaaS Windows
The rule states no platform. This is derived from the 4 ATT&CK techniques it maps to.
Log source product: windows
Log source category: process_creation

Known benign triggers

Unlikely

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
youtu.be/7aemGhaE9ds?t=641	Unclassified	Only this detection cites it

Detection rules

Webshell Hacking Activity Patterns

Detection logic

Detection requirements

Known benign triggers

MITRE ATT&CK mappings

References

From the source

Licence

Authorship

Detection rules