Potential Binary Proxy Execution Via VSDiagnostics.EXE

 1title: Potential Binary Proxy Execution Via VSDiagnostics.EXE
 2id: ac1c92b4-ac81-405a-9978-4604d78cc47e
 3status: experimental
 4description: Detects execution of "VSDiagnostics.exe" with the "start" command in order to launch and proxy arbitrary binaries.
 5references:
 6    - https://twitter.com/0xBoku/status/1679200664013135872
 7author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
 8date: 2023/08/03
 9tags:
10    - attack.defense_evasion
11    - attack.t1218
12logsource:
13    category: process_creation
14    product: windows
15detection:
16    selection_img:
17        - Image|endswith: '\VSDiagnostics.exe'
18        - OriginalFileName: 'VSDiagnostics.exe'
19    selection_cli_start:
20        CommandLine|contains: 'start'
21    selection_cli_launch:
22        CommandLine|contains:
23            - ' /launch:'
24            - ' -launch:'
25    condition: all of selection_*
26falsepositives:
27    - Legitimate usage for tracing and diagnostics purposes
28level: medium