title: Raw Paste Service Access
id: 5468045b-4fcc-4d1a-973c-c9c9578edacb
status: test
description: Detects direct access to raw pastes in different paste services often used by malware in their second stages to download malicious code in encrypted or encoded form
author: Florian Roth
references:
  - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/paste.ee/relations
date: 2019/12/05
modified: 2021/11/27
logsource:
  category: proxy
detection:
  selection:
    c-uri|contains:
      - '.paste.ee/r/'
      - '.pastebin.com/raw/'
      - '.hastebin.com/raw/'
      - '.ghostbin.co/paste/*/raw/'
  condition: selection
fields:
  - ClientIP
  - c-uri
  - c-useragent
falsepositives:
  - User activity (e.g. developer that shared and copied code snippets and used the raw link instead of just copy & paste)
level: high
tags:
  - attack.command_and_control
  - attack.t1071.001
  - attack.t1102.001
  - attack.t1102.003
  - attack.defense_evasion
