Chromium Browser Headless Execution To Mockbin Like Site

Detects the execution of a Chromium based browser process with the "headless" flag and a URL pointing to the mockbin.org service (which can be used to exfiltrate data).

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 1title: Chromium Browser Headless Execution To Mockbin Like Site
 2id: 1c526788-0abe-4713-862f-b520da5e5316
 3status: experimental
 4description: Detects the execution of a Chromium based browser process with the "headless" flag and a URL pointing to the mockbin.org service (which can be used to exfiltrate data).
 5references:
 6    - https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/steal-it-campaign
 7author: X__Junior (Nextron Systems)
 8date: 2023/09/11
 9tags:
10    - attack.execution
11logsource:
12    product: windows
13    category: process_creation
14detection:
15    selection_img:
16        Image|endswith:
17            - '\brave.exe'
18            - '\chrome.exe'
19            - '\msedge.exe'
20            - '\opera.exe'
21            - '\vivaldi.exe'
22    selection_headless:
23        CommandLine|contains: '--headless'
24    selection_url:
25        CommandLine|contains:
26            - '://run.mocky'
27            - '://mockbin'
28    condition: all of selection_*
29falsepositives:
30    - Unknown
31level: high

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