Antivirus Relevant File Paths Alerts

Detects an Antivirus alert in a highly relevant file path or with a relevant file name. This event must not be ignored just because the AV has blocked the malware but investigate, how it came there in the first place.

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 1title: Antivirus Relevant File Paths Alerts
 2id: c9a88268-0047-4824-ba6e-4d81ce0b907c
 3status: test
 4description: |
 5    Detects an Antivirus alert in a highly relevant file path or with a relevant file name.
 6    This event must not be ignored just because the AV has blocked the malware but investigate, how it came there in the first place.    
 7references:
 8    - https://www.nextron-systems.com/?s=antivirus
 9author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Arnim Rupp
10date: 2018-09-09
11modified: 2024-11-02
12tags:
13    - attack.resource-development
14    - attack.t1588
15logsource:
16    category: antivirus
17detection:
18    selection_path:
19        Filename|contains:
20            - ':\PerfLogs\'
21            - ':\Temp\'
22            - ':\Users\Default\'
23            - ':\Users\Public\'
24            - ':\Windows\'
25            - '/www/'
26            # - '\Client\'
27            - '\inetpub\'
28            - '\tsclient\'
29            - 'apache'
30            - 'nginx'
31            - 'tomcat'
32            - 'weblogic'
33    selection_ext:
34        Filename|endswith:
35            - '.asax'
36            - '.ashx'
37            - '.asmx'
38            - '.asp'
39            - '.aspx'
40            - '.bat'
41            - '.cfm'
42            - '.cgi'
43            - '.chm'
44            - '.cmd'
45            - '.dat'
46            - '.ear'
47            - '.gif'
48            - '.hta'
49            - '.jpeg'
50            - '.jpg'
51            - '.jsp'
52            - '.jspx'
53            - '.lnk'
54            - '.msc'
55            - '.php'
56            - '.pl'
57            - '.png'
58            - '.ps1'
59            - '.psm1'
60            - '.py'
61            - '.pyc'
62            - '.rb'
63            - '.scf'
64            - '.sct'
65            - '.sh'
66            - '.svg'
67            - '.txt'
68            - '.vbe'
69            - '.vbs'
70            - '.war'
71            - '.wll'
72            - '.wsf'
73            - '.wsh'
74            - '.xll'
75            - '.xml'
76    condition: 1 of selection_*
77falsepositives:
78    - Unlikely
79level: high

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