SocGholish NLTest Domain Trust Enumeration (RedCanary Threat Detection Report)

 1title: SocGholish NLTest Domain Trust Enumeration (RedCanary Threat Detection Report)
 2id: cdd824c2-ebda-404e-ad62-b2acf251976a
 3status: experimental
 4description: Detects domain trust enumeration with nltest.exe, a procedure associated with SocGholish. Part of the RedCanary 2023 Threat Detection Report.
 5references:
 6    - https://redcanary.com/threat-detection-report/threats/socgholish/#threat-socgholish
 7author: RedCanary, Sigma formatting by Micah Babinski
 8date: 2023/05/10
 9tags:
10    - attack.discovery
11    - attack.t1482
12logsource:
13    category: process_creation
14    product: windows
15detection:
16    selection:
17        Image|endswith: '\nltest.exe'
18        CommandLine|contains|windash:
19            - '/domain_trusts'
20            - '/all_trusts'
21    condition: selection
22falsepositives:
23    - Unknown
24level: low```

References

• SocGholish - Red Canary Threat Detection Report

  

  SocGholish leverages drive-by-downloads masquerading as software updates to trick visitors of compromised websites into executing malware.

  
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