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Exploit for CVE-2017-8759

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

Detects Winword starting uncommon sub process csc.exe as used in exploits for CVE-2017-8759

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

Telemetry coverage

Rule body

title: Exploit for CVE-2017-8759
id: fdd84c68-a1f6-47c9-9477-920584f94905
status: test
description: Detects Winword starting uncommon sub process csc.exe as used in exploits for CVE-2017-8759
references:
    - https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/0b4ef455e385b750d9f90749f1467eaf00e46e8d6c2885c260e1b78211a51684?environmentId=100
    - https://www.reverse.it/sample/0b4ef455e385b750d9f90749f1467eaf00e46e8d6c2885c260e1b78211a51684?environmentId=100
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
date: 2017-09-15
modified: 2021-11-27
tags:
    - attack.execution
    - attack.t1203
    - attack.t1204.002
    - attack.initial-access
    - attack.t1566.001
    - cve.2017-8759
    - detection.emerging-threats
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        ParentImage|endswith: '\WINWORD.EXE'
        Image|endswith: '\csc.exe'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: critical

Stages and Predicates

Stage 0: condition

selection

Stage 1: selection

selection:
    ParentImage|endswith: '\WINWORD.EXE'
    Image|endswith: '\csc.exe'

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

FieldKindValuesSearch
Imageends_with
  • \csc.exe corpus 9 (sigma 9)
field:"Image" kind:ends_with value:"\csc.exe"
ParentImageends_with
  • \WINWORD.EXE corpus 10 (sigma 10)
field:"ParentImage" kind:ends_with value:"\WINWORD.EXE"