[metadata] creation_date = "2020/03/19" maturity = "production" updated_date = "2021/05/26" [rule] author = ["Elastic"] description = """ Identifies certutil.exe making a network connection. Adversaries could abuse certutil.exe to download a certificate, or malware, from a remote URL. """ from = "now-9m" index = ["winlogbeat-*", "logs-endpoint.events.*", "logs-windows.*"] language = "eql" license = "Elastic License v2" name = "Network Connection via Certutil" references = ["https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/iana-ipv4-special-registry.xhtml"] risk_score = 21 rule_id = "3838e0e3-1850-4850-a411-2e8c5ba40ba8" severity = "low" tags = ["Elastic", "Host", "Windows", "Threat Detection", "Command and Control"] type = "eql" query = ''' sequence by process.entity_id [process where process.name : "certutil.exe" and event.type == "start"] [network where process.name : "certutil.exe" and not cidrmatch(destination.ip, "10.0.0.0/8", "127.0.0.0/8", "169.254.0.0/16", "172.16.0.0/12", "192.0.0.0/24", "192.0.0.0/29", "192.0.0.8/32", "192.0.0.9/32", "192.0.0.10/32", "192.0.0.170/32", "192.0.0.171/32", "192.0.2.0/24", "192.31.196.0/24", "192.52.193.0/24", "192.168.0.0/16", "192.88.99.0/24", "224.0.0.0/4", "100.64.0.0/10", "192.175.48.0/24", "198.18.0.0/15", "198.51.100.0/24", "203.0.113.0/24", "240.0.0.0/4", "::1", "FE80::/10", "FF00::/8")] ''' [[rule.threat]] framework = "MITRE ATT&CK" [[rule.threat.technique]] id = "T1105" name = "Ingress Tool Transfer" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1105/" [rule.threat.tactic] id = "TA0011" name = "Command and Control" reference = "https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0011/"