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Suspicious SysAidServer Child — Sigma Rule

Sigma rule 60bfeac3-0d35-4302-8efb-1dd16f715bc6. Suspicious SysAidServer Child — Sigma Rule. Detects suspicious child processes of SysAidServer (as seen in MERCURY threat actor intrusions)

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Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems). Source status: test; severity: medium. Source dates: 2022-08-26 / not supplied.

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

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Source SHA-256: a423a545dc22272a0ceb1f36f8dd7186bed5d1570ff474a832e4e09639f34ffd

Detection logic

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title: Suspicious SysAidServer Child
id: 60bfeac3-0d35-4302-8efb-1dd16f715bc6
status: test
description: Detects suspicious child processes of SysAidServer (as seen in MERCURY threat actor intrusions)
references:
    - https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/08/25/mercury-leveraging-log4j-2-vulnerabilities-in-unpatched-systems-to-target-israeli-organizations/
author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
date: 2022-08-26
tags:
    - attack.lateral-movement
    - attack.t1210
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        ParentImage|endswith:
            - '\java.exe'
            - '\javaw.exe'
        ParentCommandLine|contains: 'SysAidServer'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: medium

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  • Unknown

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