Blue Mockingbird

 1title: Blue Mockingbird
 2id: c3198a27-23a0-4c2c-af19-e5328d49680e
 3related:
 4    - id: ce239692-aa94-41b3-b32f-9cab259c96ea
 5      type: merged
 6status: test
 7description: Attempts to detect system changes made by Blue Mockingbird
 8references:
 9    - https://redcanary.com/blog/blue-mockingbird-cryptominer/
10author: Trent Liffick (@tliffick)
11date: 2020-05-14
12modified: 2022-10-09
13tags:
14    - attack.execution
15    - attack.t1112
16    - attack.t1047
17    - detection.emerging-threats
18logsource:
19    category: process_creation
20    product: windows
21detection:
22    sc_cmd:
23        Image|endswith: '\cmd.exe'
24        CommandLine|contains|all:
25            - 'sc config'
26            - 'wercplsupporte.dll'
27    wmic_cmd:
28        Image|endswith: '\wmic.exe'
29        CommandLine|endswith: 'COR_PROFILER'
30    condition: sc_cmd or wmic_cmd
31falsepositives:
32    - Unknown
33level: high

References

• Blue Mockingbird activity mines Monero cryptocurrency

  

  Red Canary Intel is monitoring a potentially novel threat that is deploying Monero cryptocurrency-mining DLLs on Windows machines at multiple organizations.

  
  Read More

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