Remote Access Tool - AnyDesk Piped Password Via CLI

Detects piping the password to an anydesk instance via CMD and the '--set-password' flag.

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 1title: Remote Access Tool - AnyDesk Piped Password Via CLI
 2id: b1377339-fda6-477a-b455-ac0923f9ec2c
 3status: test
 4description: Detects piping the password to an anydesk instance via CMD and the '--set-password' flag.
 5references:
 6    - https://redcanary.com/blog/misbehaving-rats/
 7author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
 8date: 2022/09/28
 9modified: 2023/03/05
10tags:
11    - attack.command_and_control
12    - attack.t1219
13logsource:
14    category: process_creation
15    product: windows
16detection:
17    selection:
18        CommandLine|contains|all:
19            # Example: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /C cmd.exe /c echo J9kzQ2Y0qO |C:\ProgramData\anydesk.exe --set-password
20            - '/c '
21            - 'echo '
22            - '.exe --set-password'
23    condition: selection
24falsepositives:
25    - Legitimate piping of the password to anydesk
26    - Some FP could occur with similar tools that uses the same command line '--set-password'
27level: medium

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