Raw Paste Service Access

 1title: Raw Paste Service Access
 2id: 5468045b-4fcc-4d1a-973c-c9c9578edacb
 3status: test
 4description: Detects direct access to raw pastes in different paste services often used by malware in their second stages to download malicious code in encrypted or encoded form
 5references:
 6    - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/paste.ee/relations
 7author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
 8date: 2019-12-05
 9modified: 2023-01-19
10tags:
11    - attack.command-and-control
12    - attack.t1071.001
13    - attack.t1102.001
14    - attack.t1102.003
15    - attack.defense-evasion
16logsource:
17    category: proxy
18detection:
19    selection:
20        c-uri|contains:
21            - '.paste.ee/r/'
22            - '.pastebin.com/raw/'
23            - '.hastebin.com/raw/'
24            - '.ghostbin.co/paste/*/raw/'
25            - 'pastetext.net/'
26            - 'pastebin.pl/'
27            - 'paste.ee/'
28    condition: selection
29falsepositives:
30    - User activity (e.g. developer that shared and copied code snippets and used the raw link instead of just copy & paste)
31level: high