Sigma rule: Suspicious Redirection to Local Admin Share

Rule

Title

Suspicious Redirection to Local Admin Share

Status

test

Level

high

Author

Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)

Date

2022-01-16

Modified

2023-12-28

File

rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_susp_redirect_local_admin_share.yml

Commit

ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84

Detects a suspicious output redirection to the local admins share, this technique is often found in malicious scripts or hacktool stagers

Log source

product

windows

category

process_creation

Detection

selection_redirect:
    CommandLine|contains: '>'
selection_share:
    CommandLine|contains:
        - '\\\\127.0.0.1\\admin$\\'
        - '\\\\localhost\\admin$\\'
condition: all of selection_*

False positives (as the rule lists them)

• Unknown

Tags

• attack.exfiltration
• attack.t1048

MITRE ATT&CK ids this rule names

• T1048

References

• https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/01/15/destructive-malware-targeting-ukrainian-organizations/
• http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2022/09/lazarus-three-rats.html

Read on 2026-11-03T00:58:21.399Z under licence sigma-drl-1.1@d5f4c36a from https://github.com/SigmaHQ/sigma/blob/ccbb0369507f796db0b0ae6854c8a2be471b9d84/rules/windows/process_creation/proc_creation_win_susp_redirect_local_admin_share.yml