Command Shell Bypassing Security Controls

 1title: Command Shell Bypassing Security Controls
 2id: 188b256a-4344-47fb-88ed-6343b37c4999
 3status: experimental
 4description: Detects common ways to bypass controls using Windows Command Shell. Inspired
 5    by the 2022 Red Canary Threat Detection report.
 6references:
 7    - https://redcanary.com/threat-detection-report/techniques/windows-command-shell/
 8author: Micah Babinski
 9date: 2022/11/03
10tags:
11    - attack.execution
12    - attack.t1059.003
13logsource:
14    category: process_creation
15    product: windows
16detection:
17    selection:
18        Image|endswith: '\cmd.exe'
19        CommandLine|contains|windash:
20            - 'bypass'
21            - '-exec'
22    condition: selection
23falsepositives:
24    - Unknown
25level: high```

References

• Windows Command Shell | Red Canary Threat Detection Report

  

  Windows Command Shell is a favorite among adversaries because it can call on any executable on the system to execute batch files and more.

  
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