SocGholish Script File Whoami Output to File (RedCanary Threat Detection Report)

 1title: SocGholish Script File Whoami Output to File (RedCanary Threat Detection Report)
 2id: 0886986b-47e9-41e8-87c7-41b202503b24
 3status: experimental
 4description: Detects wscript spawning CMD which in turn runs whoami, with the output of the command directed to a file. 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.t1033
12logsource:
13    category: process_creation
14    product: windows
15detection:
16    selection:
17        ParentImage|endswith: '\wscript.exe'
18        Image|endswith: '\cmd.exe'
19        CommandLine|contains|windash:
20            - 'whoami /all >'
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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