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Rundll32 Suspicious Command Line (Windows Event Log)

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

Threat actors using Gamarue, also referred to as Andromeda or Wauchos, have been observed abusing rundll32.exe using unusual strings for DLL names. This use case detects rundll32 executions with strings matching unusual patterns

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

References

Telemetry coverage

Rule body

id: '27224.49649'
title: Rundll32 Suspicious Command Line
description: Threat actors using Gamarue, also referred to as Andromeda or Wauchos,
  have been observed abusing rundll32.exe using unusual strings for DLL names. This
  use case detects rundll32 executions with strings matching unusual patterns. Living
  Off the Land Binary and Scripts (LOLBAS) (LOLBIN)
logic_format: Splunk
logic: '`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_winevent` (TERM(EventCode=4688) OR
  "<EventID>4688<" OR Type=Process) TERM(rundll32) OR "rundll32" | regex process="\x5c\x5c?[-_]{2,}[-_]{2,}[-_]{2,}.+,"|
  table _time, host, user, process, process_*, parent_process_* | bin span=1s | stats
  values(*) as * by _time, host '
techniques:
- defense-evasion:system binary proxy execution:rundll32
technique_id:
- T1218.011
data_category:
- Process command-line parameters
- Windows event logs
references:
- https://redcanary.com/threat-detection-report/threats/gamarue/
- https://redcanary.com/blog/lolbins-abuse/

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: search

`get_endpoint_data` `get_endpoint_data_winevent` (TERM(EventCode=4688) OR "<EventID>4688<" OR Type=Process) TERM(rundll32) OR "rundll32"

Stage 2: regex

| regex process="\x5c\x5c?[-_]{2,}[-_]{2,}[-_]{2,}.+,"

Stage 3: table

| table _time, host, user, process, process_*, parent_process_*

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
  • 4688 corpus 317 (splunk 283, kusto 33, elastic 1)
field:"EventID" kind:eq value:"4688"
processregex_match
  • "\x5c\x5c?[-_]{2,}[-_]{2,}[-_]{2,}.+," corpus 3 (splunk 3)
field:"CommandLine" kind:regex_match

Search terms

These SPL tokens match against raw event text.

StageTerm
1"<EventID>4688<"
1rundll32
1"rundll32"