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Suspicious Child Process of AspNetCompiler

Status
test
Severity
high
Log source
product windows, category process_creation
Author
Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
Source
github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma

Detects potentially suspicious child processes of "aspnet_compiler.exe".

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Event coverage

Rule body yaml

title: Suspicious Child Process of AspNetCompiler
id: 9ccba514-7cb6-4c5c-b377-700758f2f120 # SuspChild
related:
    - id: 4c7f49ee-2638-43bb-b85b-ce676c30b260 # TMP File
      type: similar
    - id: 9f50fe98-fe5c-4a2d-86c7-fad7f63ed622 # Susp Paths
      type: similar
    - id: a01b8329-5953-4f73-ae2d-aa01e1f35f00 # Exec
      type: similar
status: test
description: Detects potentially suspicious child processes of "aspnet_compiler.exe".
references:
    - https://lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/Binaries/Aspnet_Compiler/
    - https://ijustwannared.team/2020/08/01/the-curious-case-of-aspnet_compiler-exe/
author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
date: 2023-08-14
tags:
    - attack.execution
    - attack.stealth
    - attack.t1127
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection_parent:
        ParentImage|endswith: '\aspnet_compiler.exe'
    selection_child:
        # Note: add other potential suspicious child processes and paths
        - Image|endswith:
              - '\calc.exe'
              - '\notepad.exe'
        - Image|contains:
              - '\Users\Public\'
              - '\AppData\Local\Temp\'
              - '\AppData\Local\Roaming\'
              - ':\Temp\'
              - ':\Windows\Temp\'
              - ':\Windows\System32\Tasks\'
              - ':\Windows\Tasks\'
    condition: all of selection_*
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: high

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

all of selection_*

Stage 1: selection_parent

selection_parent:
    ParentImage|endswith: '\aspnet_compiler.exe'

Stage 2: selection_child

selection_child:
    - Image|endswith:
          - '\calc.exe'
          - '\notepad.exe'
    - Image|contains:
          - '\Users\Public\'
          - '\AppData\Local\Temp\'
          - '\AppData\Local\Roaming\'
          - ':\Temp\'
          - ':\Windows\Temp\'
          - ':\Windows\System32\Tasks\'
          - ':\Windows\Tasks\'

Indicators

Each row is a field, operator, and value that the rule matches. The corpus column counts how many other rules in the catalog look for the same combination: high numbers point to widely-used, community-vetted indicators. Blank or 1 shows that the indicator is specific to this rule.

FieldKindValues
Imageends_with
  • \calc.exe corpus 13 (sigma 13)
  • \notepad.exe corpus 9 (sigma 9)
Imagematch
  • :\Temp\ corpus 13 (sigma 13)
  • :\Windows\System32\Tasks\ corpus 4 (sigma 4)
  • :\Windows\Tasks\ corpus 5 (sigma 5)
  • :\Windows\Temp\ corpus 9 (sigma 9)
  • \AppData\Local\Roaming\
  • \AppData\Local\Temp\ corpus 11 (sigma 11)
  • \Users\Public\ corpus 10 (sigma 10)
ParentImageends_with
  • \aspnet_compiler.exe