Suspicious Git Clone — Sigma Rule

Rule metadata and linked tags

Author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems). Source status: test; severity: medium. Source dates: 2023-01-03 / 2023-01-10.

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

Pinned original Sigma rule · Detection Rule License 1.1

Source SHA-256: d400f29312ec5fa4ca8cd348b85bb6e924d7c988fd48ee4620bce751329d2dc3

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: Suspicious Git Clone
id: aef9d1f1-7396-4e92-a927-4567c7a495c1
status: test
description: Detects execution of "git" in order to clone a remote repository that contain suspicious keywords which might be suspicious
references:
    - https://gist.githubusercontent.com/MichaelKoczwara/12faba9c061c12b5814b711166de8c2f/raw/e2068486692897b620c25fde1ea258c8218fe3d3/history.txt
author: Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)
date: 2023-01-03
modified: 2023-01-10
tags:
    - attack.reconnaissance
    - attack.t1593.003
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection_img:
        - Image|endswith:
              - '\git.exe'
              - '\git-remote-https.exe'
        - OriginalFileName: 'git.exe'
    selection_cli:
        CommandLine|contains:
            - ' clone '
            - 'git-remote-https '
    selection_keyword:
        CommandLine|contains:
            # Add more suspicious keywords
            - 'exploit'
            - 'Vulns'
            - 'vulnerability'
            - 'RemoteCodeExecution'
            - 'Invoke-'
            - 'CVE-'
            - 'poc-'
            - 'ProofOfConcept'
            # Add more vuln names
            - 'proxyshell'
            - 'log4shell'
            - 'eternalblue'
            - 'eternal-blue'
            - 'MS17-'
    condition: all of selection_*
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: medium

Original YAML and metadata in JSON

False positives

• Unknown

Source references

• https://gist.githubusercontent.com/MichaelKoczwara/12faba9c061c12b5814b711166de8c2f/raw/e2068486692897b620c25fde1ea258c8218fe3d3/history.txt