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Visio.exe File Download (Windows Event Log)

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

Visio.exe is a diagramming and vector graphics application developed by Microsoft, used for creating flowcharts, organizational charts, and other visual representations of information. Threat actors can abuse visio.exe to download files. This use case detects executions of visio.exe followed by URLs in the command line

MITRE ATT&CK coverage

TacticTechniques
Command & Control

References

Telemetry coverage

Rule body

id: '33361.59028'
title: Visio.exe File Download
description: Visio.exe is a diagramming and vector graphics application developed
  by Microsoft, used for creating flowcharts, organizational charts, and other visual
  representations of information. Threat actors can abuse visio.exe to download files.
  This use case detects executions of visio.exe followed by URLs in the command line.
  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(visio) | regex process="(?i)visio(\.exe(\"|\'')?)?\s+(\"|\'')?[A-Za-z0-9]{2,6}:\/\/[^\s]+"|
  table _time, host, user, process, process_*, parent_*, signature_id | bin span=1s
  | stats values(*) as * by _time, host '
techniques:
- command-and-control:ingress tool transfer
technique_id: 
- T1105
data_category:
- Process command-line parameters
- Windows event logs
references:
- https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1105/
- https://lolbas-project.github.io/lolbas/OtherMSBinaries/Visio/

Stages and Predicates

Stage 1: search

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

Stage 2: regex

| regex process="(?i)visio(\.exe(\"|\')?)?\s+(\"|\')?[A-Za-z0-9]{2,6}:\/\/[^\s]+"

Stage 3: table

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

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
  • "(?i)visio(.exe(\"|\')?)?\s+(\"|\')?[A-Za-z0-9]{2,6}:\/\/[^\s]+" corpus 3 (splunk 3)
field:"CommandLine" kind:regex_match

Search terms

These SPL tokens match against raw event text.

StageTerm
1"<EventID>4688<"
1visio