Detection rules › Sigma

System Drawing DLL Load

Status
test
Severity
low
Log source
category image_load, product windows
Author
Roberto Rodriguez (Cyb3rWard0g), OTR (Open Threat Research)
Source
github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects processes loading "System.Drawing.ni.dll". This could be an indicator of potential Screen Capture.

Known false positives

  • False positives are very common from system and third party applications, activity needs to be investigated. This rule is best correlated with other events to increase the level of suspiciousness

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Collection

Telemetry coverage

ProviderRecord / event type
SysmonEvent ID 7: Image loaded

Rule body

title: System Drawing DLL Load
id: 666ecfc7-229d-42b8-821e-1a8f8cb7057c
status: test
description: Detects processes loading "System.Drawing.ni.dll". This could be an indicator of potential Screen Capture.
references:
    - https://github.com/OTRF/detection-hackathon-apt29/issues/16
    - https://github.com/OTRF/ThreatHunter-Playbook/blob/2d4257f630f4c9770f78d0c1df059f891ffc3fec/docs/evals/apt29/detections/7.A.1_3B4E5808-3C71-406A-B181-17B0CE3178C9.md
author: Roberto Rodriguez (Cyb3rWard0g), OTR (Open Threat Research)
date: 2020-05-02
modified: 2023-02-22
tags:
    - attack.collection
    - attack.t1113
    - detection.threat-hunting
logsource:
    product: windows
    category: image_load
detection:
    selection:
        ImageLoaded|endswith: '\System.Drawing.ni.dll'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - False positives are very common from system and third party applications, activity needs to be investigated. This rule is best correlated with other events to increase the level of suspiciousness
level: low

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

selection

Stage 1: selection

selection:
    ImageLoaded|endswith: '\System.Drawing.ni.dll'

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

FieldKindValuesSearch
ImageLoadedends_with
  • \System.Drawing.ni.dll
field:"ImageLoaded" kind:ends_with value:"\System.Drawing.ni.dll"