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Driver Load From A Temporary Directory

Status
test
Severity
high
Log source
category driver_load, product windows
Author
Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
Source
github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects a driver load from a temporary directory

Known false positives

  • There is a relevant set of false positives depending on applications in the environment

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Telemetry coverage

ProviderRecord / event type
SysmonEvent ID 6: Driver loaded

Rule body

title: Driver Load From A Temporary Directory
id: 2c4523d5-d481-4ed0-8ec3-7fbf0cb41a75
status: test
description: Detects a driver load from a temporary directory
references:
    - Internal Research
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
date: 2017-02-12
modified: 2021-11-27
tags:
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.t1543.003
logsource:
    category: driver_load
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        ImageLoaded|contains: '\Temp\'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - There is a relevant set of false positives depending on applications in the environment
level: high

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

selection

Stage 1: selection

selection:
    ImageLoaded|contains: '\Temp\'

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

FieldKindValuesSearch
ImageLoadedmatch
  • \Temp\ corpus 2 (sigma 2)
field:"ImageLoaded" kind:match value:"\Temp\"