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title: Potential Suspicious Mofcomp Execution
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id: 1dd05363-104e-4b4a-b963-196a534b03a1
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status: experimental
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description: |
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Detects execution of the "mofcomp" utility as a child of a suspicious shell or script running utility or by having a suspicious path in the commandline.
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The "mofcomp" utility parses a file containing MOF statements and adds the classes and class instances defined in the file to the WMI repository.
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Attackers abuse this utility to install malicious MOF scripts
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references:
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- https://thedfirreport.com/2022/07/11/select-xmrig-from-sqlserver/
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- https://github.com/The-DFIR-Report/Sigma-Rules/blob/75260568a7ffe61b2458ca05f6f25914efb44337/win_mofcomp_execution.yml
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- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/mofcomp
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author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
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date: 2022/07/12
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modified: 2023/04/11
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tags:
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- attack.execution
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- attack.t1218
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logsource:
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category: process_creation
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product: windows
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detection:
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selection_img:
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- Image|endswith: '\mofcomp.exe'
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- OriginalFileName: 'mofcomp.exe'
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selection_case:
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- ParentImage|endswith:
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- '\cmd.exe'
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- '\powershell.exe'
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- '\pwsh.exe'
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- '\wsl.exe'
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- '\wscript.exe'
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- '\cscript.exe'
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- CommandLine|contains:
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- '\AppData\Local\Temp'
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- '\Users\Public\'
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- '\WINDOWS\Temp\'
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- '%temp%'
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- '%tmp%'
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- '%appdata%'
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filter_main_wmiprvse:
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ParentImage: 'C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WmiPrvSE.exe'
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CommandLine|contains: 'C:\Windows\TEMP\'
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CommandLine|endswith: '.mof'
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filter_optional_null_parent:
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# Sometimes the parent information isn't available from the Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing provider.
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CommandLine|contains: 'C:\Windows\TEMP\'
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CommandLine|endswith: '.mof'
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condition: all of selection_* and not 1 of filter_main_* and not 1 of filter_optional_*
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falsepositives:
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- Unknown
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level: high
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