Sysprep on AppData Folder
Detects suspicious sysprep process start with AppData folder as target (as used by Trojan Syndicasec in Thrip report by Symantec)
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1title: Sysprep on AppData Folder
2id: d5b9ae7a-e6fc-405e-80ff-2ff9dcc64e7e
3status: test
4description: Detects suspicious sysprep process start with AppData folder as target (as used by Trojan Syndicasec in Thrip report by Symantec)
5references:
6 - https://www.symantec.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/thrip-hits-satellite-telecoms-defense-targets
7 - https://app.any.run/tasks/61a296bb-81ad-4fee-955f-3b399f4aaf4b
8author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
9date: 2018/06/22
10modified: 2021/11/27
11tags:
12 - attack.execution
13 - attack.t1059
14logsource:
15 category: process_creation
16 product: windows
17detection:
18 selection:
19 Image|endswith: '\sysprep.exe'
20 CommandLine|contains: '\AppData\'
21 condition: selection
22falsepositives:
23 - False positives depend on scripts and administrative tools used in the monitored environment
24level: medium
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