Potential Qakbot Registry Activity — Sigma Rule

Rule metadata and linked tags

Author: Hieu Tran. Source status: test; severity: high. Source dates: 2023-03-13 / not supplied.

{
  "category": "registry_event",
  "product": "windows"
}

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Source SHA-256: 5e3bd42da65966d2e3e0156bd4dbba5b80206b558e94cb567f5f2b2aa8ae4f5c

Detection logic

Original source YAML. Source-tag agreement is not proof of complete semantic coverage. This rule has not been compiled for a SIEM backend or validated against live telemetry here.

title: Potential Qakbot Registry Activity
id: 1c8e96cd-2bed-487d-9de0-b46c90cade56
status: test
description: Detects a registry key used by IceID in a campaign that distributes malicious OneNote files
references:
    - https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/onenote-growing-threat-malware-distribution
author: Hieu Tran
date: 2023-03-13
tags:
    - attack.persistence
    - attack.defense-impairment
    - attack.t1112
logsource:
    category: registry_event
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        TargetObject|endswith: '\Software\firm\soft\Name'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: high

Original YAML and metadata in JSON

False positives

• Unknown

Source references

• https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/onenote-growing-threat-malware-distribution