The SIEM app is now a part of the Elastic Security solution. Click here to view SIEM documentation for previous releases.

« Network Connection via Regsvr Network Sniffing via Tcpdump »

› › ›

Network Connection via Signed Binary

edit

Network Connection via Signed Binary

edit

Binaries signed with trusted digital certificates can execute on Windows systems protected by digital signature validation. Adversaries may use these binaries to live off the land and execute malicious files that could bypass application allowlists and signature validation.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

winlogbeat-*
logs-endpoint.events.*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-9m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

Tags:

Elastic
Windows

Version: 4 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.9.1

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License

Rule query

edit

event.category:network and event.type:connection and
process.name:(expand.exe or extrac.exe or ieexec.exe or makecab.exe)
and not destination.ip:(10.0.0.0/8 or 172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16)

Threat mapping

edit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/
Technique:
- Name: Signed Binary Proxy Execution
- ID: T1218
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/
Tactic:
- Name: Execution
- ID: TA0002
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0002/
Technique:
- Name: Signed Binary Proxy Execution
- ID: T1218
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1218/

Rule version history

edit

Version 4 (7.9.1 release)

Formatting only

Version 3 (7.9.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

process.name:(expand.exe or extrac.exe or ieexec.exe or makecab.exe)
and event.action:"Network connection detected (rule: NetworkConnect)"
and not destination.ip:(10.0.0.0/8 or 172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16)

Version 2 (7.7.0 release)

Updated query, changed from:

(process.name:expand.exe or process.name:extrac.exe or
process.name:ieexec.exe or process.name:makecab.exe) and
event.action:"Network connection detected (rule: NetworkConnect)" and
not destination.ip:10.0.0.0/8 and not destination.ip:172.16.0.0/12 and
not destination.ip:192.168.0.0/16

« Network Connection via Regsvr Network Sniffing via Tcpdump »