Certutil Downloading Malicious Binaries (RedCanary Threat Detection Report)

 1title: Certutil Downloading Malicious Binaries (RedCanary Threat Detection Report)
 2id: 5da5a0a0-e610-4d72-9562-339eafdef216
 3status: experimental
 4description: |
 5    Detects attempts to bypass security controls using certutil.exe to download malicious code. 
 6    Part of the RedCanary 2023 Threat Detection Report.    
 7references:
 8    - https://redcanary.com/threat-detection-report/techniques/ingress-tool-transfer/
 9author: RedCanary, Sigma formatting by Micah Babinski
10date: 2023/05/10
11tags:
12    - attack.command_and_control
13    - attack.t1105
14logsource:
15    category: process_creation
16    product: windows
17detection:
18    selection:
19        Image|endswith: '\certutil.exe'
20        CommandLine|contains:
21            - 'urlcache'
22            - 'split'
23    condition: selection
24falsepositives:
25    - Unknown
26level: low```

References

• Ingress Tool Transfer - Red Canary Threat Detection Report

  

  Ingress Tool Transfer is a technique adversaries leverage to bring their own external tools into a compromised network.

  
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