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Network Connection via Signed Binary

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Network Connection via Signed Binary

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Binaries signed with trusted digital certificates can execute on Windows systems protected by digital signature validation. Adversaries may use these binaries to live off the land and execute malicious files that could bypass application allowlists and signature validation.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • winlogbeat-*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum signals per execution: 100

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Windows

Version: 2 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.6.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.7.0

Rule query

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process.name:(expand.exe or extrac.exe or ieexec.exe or makecab.exe)
and event.action:"Network connection detected (rule: NetworkConnect)"
and not destination.ip:(10.0.0.0/8 or 172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16)

Threat mapping

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Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version history

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Version 2 (7.7.0 release)

Updated query, changed from: 

(process.name:expand.exe or process.name:extrac.exe or
process.name:ieexec.exe or process.name:makecab.exe) and
event.action:"Network connection detected (rule: NetworkConnect)" and
not destination.ip:10.0.0.0/8 and not destination.ip:172.16.0.0/12 and
not destination.ip:192.168.0.0/16
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