title: Suspicious AdvancedRun Execution
id: d2b749ee-4225-417e-b20e-a8d2193cbb84
status: experimental
description: Detects the execution of AdvancedRun utitlity
references:
    - https://twitter.com/splinter_code/status/1483815103279603714
    - https://medium.com/s2wblog/analysis-of-destructive-malware-whispergate-targeting-ukraine-9d5d158f19f3
    - https://elastic.github.io/security-research/malware/2022/01/01.operation-bleeding-bear/article/
    - https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/run-program-as-system-localsystem-account-windows/
author: Florian Roth
date: 2022/01/20
logsource:
    product: windows
    category: process_creation
detection:
    selection:
        - Image|endswith: '\AdvancedRun.exe'
        - CommandLine|contains|all:
            - ' /EXEFilename '
            - ' /Run'
        - CommandLine|contains|all:
            - ' /WindowState 0'
            - ' /RunAs '
            - ' /CommandLine '
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: medium
