HackTool - UACMe Akagi Execution — Sigma Rule

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Author: Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems), Florian Roth (Nextron Systems). Source status: test; severity: high. Source dates: 2021-08-30 / 2024-11-23.

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

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Source SHA-256: ee8c562f925a99754b3653dd04f629ba4d59de99d05f08fb1a463848378164fe

Detection logic

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title: HackTool - UACMe Akagi Execution
id: d38d2fa4-98e6-4a24-aff1-410b0c9ad177
status: test
description: Detects the execution of UACMe, a tool used for UAC bypasses, via default PE metadata
references:
    - https://github.com/hfiref0x/UACME
author: Christian Burkard (Nextron Systems), Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)
date: 2021-08-30
modified: 2024-11-23
tags:
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.t1548.002
logsource:
    category: process_creation
    product: windows
detection:
    selection_pe:
        - Product: 'UACMe'
        - Company:
              - 'REvol Corp'
              - 'APT 92'
              - 'UG North'
              - 'Hazardous Environments'
              - 'CD Project Rekt'
        - Description:
              - 'UACMe main module'
              - 'Pentesting utility'
        - OriginalFileName:
              - 'Akagi.exe'
              - 'Akagi64.exe'
    selection_img:
        Image|endswith:
            - '\Akagi64.exe'
            - '\Akagi.exe'
    selection_hashes_sysmon:
        Hashes|contains:
            - 'IMPHASH=767637C23BB42CD5D7397CF58B0BE688'
            - 'IMPHASH=14C4E4C72BA075E9069EE67F39188AD8'
            - 'IMPHASH=3C782813D4AFCE07BBFC5A9772ACDBDC'
            - 'IMPHASH=7D010C6BB6A3726F327F7E239166D127'
            - 'IMPHASH=89159BA4DD04E4CE5559F132A9964EB3'
            - 'IMPHASH=6F33F4A5FC42B8CEC7314947BD13F30F'
            - 'IMPHASH=5834ED4291BDEB928270428EBBAF7604'
            - 'IMPHASH=5A8A8A43F25485E7EE1B201EDCBC7A38'
            - 'IMPHASH=DC7D30B90B2D8ABF664FBED2B1B59894'
            - 'IMPHASH=41923EA1F824FE63EA5BEB84DB7A3E74'
            - 'IMPHASH=3DE09703C8E79ED2CA3F01074719906B'
    condition: 1 of selection_*
falsepositives:
    - Unknown
level: high

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False positives

• Unknown

Source references

• https://github.com/hfiref0x/UACME