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Go Run Execution (PowerShell)

Group by
_time, host
Source
github.com/anvilogic-forge/armory

Malicious actors are beginning to turn to Golang as a malware language since it is not typically picked up by antivirus software. Although the language is about 10 years old, and is used by many legitimate programmers, there has not been as much activity with Golang malware. This use case looks for run executions by go.

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References

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Rule body

id: '6091.6542'
title: Go Run Execution
description: Malicious actors are beginning to turn to Golang as a malware language
  since it is not typically picked up by antivirus software. Although the language
  is about 10 years old, and is used by many legitimate programmers, there has not
  been as much activity with Golang malware. This use case looks for run executions
  by go.
logic_format: Splunk
logic: '`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_powershell` (TERM(EventCode=4104) OR
  TERM(<EventID>4104<)) (TERM(GO) OR "go.exe") TERM(RUN) | rex field=process (?<ioc>"(?i)\S+\.go")
  | table _time, host, user, signature_id, process, process_*, ioc | bin span=1s |
  stats values(*) as * by _time, host '
techniques:
- execution:command and scripting interpreter
technique_id: 
- T1059
data_category:
- PowerShell logs
- Process command-line parameters
references:
- https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/new-golang-malware-is-spreading-via-multiple-exploits-to-mine-mo

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: search

`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_powershell` (TERM(EventCode=4104) OR TERM(<EventID>4104<)) (TERM(GO) OR "go.exe") TERM(RUN)

Stage 2: rex

| rex field=process (?<ioc>"(?i)\S+\.go")

Stage 3: table

| table _time, host, user, signature_id, process, process_*, ioc

Stage 4: bucket

| bin span=1s

Stage 5: stats

| stats values(*) as * by _time, host

Indicators

These rows show field, operator, and value matches.

FieldKindValuesSearch
EventCodeeq
  • 4104 corpus 269 (splunk 269)
field:"EventID" kind:eq value:"4104"

Search terms

These SPL tokens match against raw event text.

StageTerm
1"<EventID>4104<"
1GO
1"go.exe"
1RUN