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APT27 - Emissary Panda Activity
Detects the execution of DLL side-loading malware used by threat group Emissary Panda aka APT27
Known false positives
- Unlikely
MITRE ATT&CK coverage
| Tactic | Techniques |
|---|---|
| Execution | |
| Stealth |
Telemetry coverage
| Provider | Record / event type |
|---|---|
| Sysmon | Event ID 1: Process creation |
| Security-Auditing | Event ID 4688: A new process has been created. |
Rule body
title: APT27 - Emissary Panda Activity
id: 9aa01d62-7667-4d3b-acb8-8cb5103e2014
status: test
description: Detects the execution of DLL side-loading malware used by threat group Emissary Panda aka APT27
references:
- https://app.any.run/tasks/579e7587-f09d-4aae-8b07-472833262965
- https://twitter.com/cyb3rops/status/1168863899531132929
- https://research.nccgroup.com/2018/05/18/emissary-panda-a-potential-new-malicious-tool/
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
date: 2018-09-03
modified: 2023-03-09
tags:
- attack.privilege-escalation
- attack.persistence
- attack.execution
- attack.stealth
- attack.t1574.001
- attack.g0027
- detection.emerging-threats
logsource:
category: process_creation
product: windows
detection:
selection_sllauncher:
ParentImage|endswith: '\sllauncher.exe'
Image|endswith: '\svchost.exe'
selection_svchost:
ParentImage|contains: '\AppData\Roaming\'
Image|endswith: '\svchost.exe'
CommandLine|contains: '-k'
condition: 1 of selection_*
falsepositives:
- Unlikely
level: critical
Stages and Predicates
Stage 0: condition
1 of selection_*Stage 1: selection_sllauncher
selection_sllauncher:
ParentImage|endswith: '\sllauncher.exe'
Image|endswith: '\svchost.exe'
Stage 2: selection_svchost
selection_svchost:
ParentImage|contains: '\AppData\Roaming\'
Image|endswith: '\svchost.exe'
CommandLine|contains: '-k'
Indicators
These rows show field, operator, and value matches.
| Field | Kind | Values | Search |
|---|---|---|---|
CommandLine | match |
| field:"CommandLine" kind:match value:"-k" |
Image | ends_with |
| field:"Image" kind:ends_with value:"\svchost.exe" |
ParentImage | ends_with |
| field:"ParentImage" kind:ends_with value:"\sllauncher.exe" |
ParentImage | match |
| field:"ParentImage" kind:match value:"\AppData\Roaming\" |